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The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe
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Description for The End of Your Life Book Club
Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: BM; MJCL; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them.' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie
'a true meditation on what books can do.' - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
Mary Anne Schwalbe is waiting for her chemotherapy treatments when Will casually asks her what she's reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they are reading the same books so they can have something to talk about in the hospital waiting room. Their choices range from classic (Howards End) to popular (The Girl with ... Read morethe Dragon Tattoo), from fantastic (The Hobbit) to spiritual (Jon Kabat-Zinn), with many more in between. We hear their passion for reading and their love for each other in their intimate and searching discussions.
The End of Your Life Book Club is a profoundly moving testament to the unconditional love between a child and parent, and the power of reading in our lives.
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Product Details
Publisher
John Murray Press
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
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About Will Schwalbe
Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing for many years. He is the author of the international bestseller, The End of Your Life Book Club and the critically-acclaimed Books for Living, and co-author (with David Shipley) of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. He has also worked in digital media, and ... Read morewas the founder of Cookstr.com. As a journalist he wrote for the New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He lives in New York City. @willsch facebook / instagram / pinterest > will.schwalbe Show Less
Reviews for The End of Your Life Book Club
Will Schwalbe gives us two love stories in one: That of his relationship with his dynamo of a mother as her horizons shrink, and that of their mutual devotion to the printed word, infinitely and insistently engaging. Tender and touching and beautifully done.
Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Cleopatra
I was so moved by this marvellous ... Read morebook. Schwalbe has done something extraordinary: made a personal journey public in the most engaging, funny and revealing way possible. It is a true meditation on what books can do.
Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes
A perfect book-club book about books and the community they create that also portrays the love between mother and son.
Library Journal
Will Schwalbe's brave and soulful elegy to his remarkable mother, his recollection of their sparklingly literate conversations, is a timely reminder that one exceptional person, or one exceptional book, can be a torch in the darkness. You'll turn the last page wishing you'd met Mary Anne Schwalbe, vowing to be worthy of her incandescent example - and promising yourself to read more.
J. R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar
At last a book that celebrates the role books play within our own story. Will Schwalbe has created a tender, moving and honest portrayal of the precious relationship between a mother and son - an ode to that beautiful thing called love.
Cecilia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You
A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them. Like the printed volumes it celebrates, this story will stay with you long after the last page.
Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Time Keeper
an astonishing, pertinent, and wonderfully welcome work.
Publishers Weekly starred review
An extraordinarily wise, witty, and quietly wrenching book about parental love, filial love, profound grief, and literature's great consolations. How wonderful to encounter a writer who combines erudition with great emotional honesty, and who isn't afraid of addressing life's most profound and baffling questions.
Douglas Kennedy, author of Leaving the World and The Pursuit of Happiness
a moving and inspiring story
Choice Magazine
This touching and insightful memoir about the slow process of dying will appeal to readers of Tuesdays With Morrie and The Last Lecture, but also to people who love delving into books and book discussions. Like Mary Anne, who reads the ending first, you know how this book is going to end, but while it is a story about death, it is mostly a celebration of life and of the way books can enrich it.
Booklist (starred review)
What self-respecting reader isn't a sucker for a great book about other great books? The End of Your Life Book Club is that much and more.
BookPage
a graceful, affecting testament to a mother and a life well lived.
Entertainment Weekly
Literature bridges generations in Will Schwalbe's thoughtful tribute to his late mother
Vogue.com
a tribute to a remarkable woman and an exemplary reader.
Salon
A truly poignant read . . . a moving tribute to a wonderful-sounding mum and the power of fiction.
Good Housekeeping
It helps of course if you are a book lover and can relate to the passion for reading, but even prolific readers will find that the book teaches them not only about life and death but about the power of a really good book to move you and peel off the onion skin layers of "what you already know" and reveal truths.
Curious Book Fans
a life-enhancing celebration of the power of books and reading, very much in the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie
Independent
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