Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and
โ Robert McCrum
๐ Library
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2017
๐ Pan Macmillan
๐ English
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Every third thought: on life, death and the endgame
โ Scribed by McCrum, Robert
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan;Picador
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
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'Thoughtful, subtle, elegantly clever and oddly joyous, Every Third Thought is beautiful' Kate Mosse
In 1995, at the age of forty two, 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, twenty-one 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?'
With the words of McCrum's favourite authors as travel companions, Every Third Thought, takes us on a journey through a year and towards death itself. As he acknowledges his own and his friends' ageing, McCrum confronts an existential question: in a world where we have learnt to live well at...
โฆ Subjects
Death;Life;;Electronic books
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