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Until Further Notice, I am Alive
Tom Lubbock
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Description for Until Further Notice, I am Alive
Paperback. A unique reckoning with the human condition, written in beautiful, honest, unsentimental and aphoristic prose Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MJCL; MJN; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
In 2008, Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told he had only one or two years to live. In this remarkable record of those years, lived out in three-month intervals between scans, he examines the question of how to live with death in sight. As the tumour progressed, Tom engaged intensely and imaginatively with work, art, friends, and his wife and their young son, while trying to remain focused on the fact of his impending death. His tumour was located in the area of the brain associated with language, and he describes losing control over the ... Read more
In 2008, Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour, and told he had only one or two years to live. In this remarkable record of those years, lived out in three-month intervals between scans, he examines the question of how to live with death in sight. As the tumour progressed, Tom engaged intensely and imaginatively with work, art, friends, and his wife and their young son, while trying to remain focused on the fact of his impending death. His tumour was located in the area of the brain associated with language, and he describes losing control over the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783781461
SKU
V9781783781461
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About Tom Lubbock
TOM LUBBOCK, writer and illustrator, was the chief art critic of the Independent between 1997 and 2011. In 2008 he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Until Further Notice, I Am Alive is his memoir chronicling the years that followed. Tom Lubbock died in 2011. Great Works, his collection of essays on painting, was published in October 2011.
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