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Things I've learned from dying : a book about life

Title
Things I've learned from dying : a book about life / David R. Dow.
Author
Dow, David R.
Publication
New York : Twelve, 2014.

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273 pages; 22 cm
Summary
""Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father. Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM DYING offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by giving voice to the anguish we all face--as parents, as children, as partners, as friends--when our loved ones die tragically, and far too soon"--
Alternative Title
Things I have learned from dying
Subjects
Call Number
JFD 16-2995
ISBN
  • 9781455575244
  • 1455575240
LCCN
2013032569
OCLC
2013032569
Author
Dow, David R.
Title
Things I've learned from dying : a book about life / David R. Dow.
Publisher
New York : Twelve, 2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Research Call Number
JFD 16-2995
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