Format:
Book
Title:
The end of your life book club / by Will Schwalbe.
Author:
Schwalbe, Will.
Call Number:
616.994 Schwalbe
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Description:
viii, 336 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
The inspiring story of a son and his dying mother, who form a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close.
Subjects:
Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- United States.
Adult core collection.
Contents:
Crossing to safety -- Appointment in Samarra -- Seventy verses on emptiness -- Marjorie Morningstar -- The hobbit -- Daily strength for daily needs -- The people of the book -- "I am sorrow" -- The uncommon reader -- The lizard cage -- Brat Farrar -- Continental drift -- The painted veil -- Murder in the cathedral -- Wherever you go, there you are -- Kokoro -- The price of salt -- The reluctant fundamentalist -- The year of magical thinking -- Olive Kitteridge -- Girls like us -- Suite française -- The bite of the mango -- The elegance of the hedgehog -- The girl with the dragon tattoo -- Brooklyn -- My father's tears -- Too much happiness.
ISBN:
9780307594037
0307594033
9780307739780
0307739783