Every Third Thought: On Life, Death and the Endgame

✍ Scribed by McCrum, Robert

• Book ID: 109651292
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 374 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781509815319

✦ Synopsis

**'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 all costs, can we make peace with what Freud calls 'the...