Every Third Thought. On Life, Death And The Endgame

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 243 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1995, at the age of 42, Robert McCrum suffered a dramatic and near-fatal stroke, the subject of his acclaimed memoir My Year Off. Ever since that life-changing event, McCrum has lived in the shadow of death, unavoidably aware of his own mortality. And now, 21 years on, he is noticing a change: his friends are joining him there. Death has become his contemporaries every third thought. The question is no longer "Who am I" but "How long have I got" and "What happens next" This book takes us on a journey through a year and towards death itself. As he acknowledges his own and his friends aging, McCrum confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at all costs, can we make peace with what Freud calls "the necessity of dying" Searching for answers leads him to others for advice and wisdom, and this book is populated by the voices of brain surgeons, psychologists, cancer patients, hospice workers, writers and poets. Witty, lucid and provocative, this book is an enthralling exploration of what it means to approach the "end game," and begin to recognize, perhaps reluctantly, that we are not immortal.

ISBN: 9781509815289