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A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying by Joe Hammond (Hardcover, 2019)
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A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air - is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places. We keep an old shoebox, Gill and I, nestled in a drawer in our room. It's filled with thirty-three birthday cards for our two young sons: one for every year I'll miss until they're twenty-one. I wrote them because, since the end of 2017, I've been living with - and dying from - motor neurone disease. This book is about the process of saying goodbye. To my body, as I journey from unexpected clumsiness to a wheelchair that resembles a spacecraft, with rods and pads and dials and bleeps. To this world, as I play less of a part in it and find myself floating off into unlighted territory. To Gill, my wife. To Tom and Jimmy. A Short History of Falling is about the sadness (and the anger, and the fear), but it's about what's beautiful too. It's about love and fatherhood, about the precious experience of observing my last moments with this body, surrounded by the people who matter most. It's about what it feels like to confront the fact that my family will persist through time with only a memory of me. In many ways, it has been the most amazing time of my life.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780008339906
eBay Product ID (ePID)28046569098
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed about Love Whilst Dying
AuthorJoe Hammond
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicMemorials, Coping with Illness
Publication Year2019
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height204mm
Item Width135mm
Item Weight320g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJoe Hammond
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 03 Oct, 2019
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This is a sensitive subject as I watch a very dear friend dying from motor neuron disease. I was expecting to find something quite profound in this book given the title and reviews but alas I did not. I read the book but certainly wouldn't recommend it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
