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    The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

    Written by David Shields

    Narrated by Peter Marinker

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    About this audiobook

    The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of David Shields 2008 New York Times Bestseller, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, read by the actor Peter Marinker.

    Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being.
    Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen - Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.

    An insightful, honest and uplifting portrait of what it means to be human, and one day to die.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin UK Audio
    Release dateApr 7, 2011
    ISBN9780141972626
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    The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead
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    David Shields

    David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including the New York Times bestseller The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead; Reality Hunger, named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications; and Black Planet, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

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