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One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
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One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us

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In this heartwarming essay collection, dozens of authors, actors, artists and others imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished.

 

A few years ago, Erica Heller realized how universal the longing is for one more moment with a lost loved one. It could be a parent, a sibling, a mentor, or a friend, but who wouldn’t love the opportunity to sit down, break bread, and just talk? Who wouldn’t jump at the chance to ask those unasked questions, or share those unvoiced feelings?

 

In One Last Lunch, Heller has asked friends and family of authors, artists, musicians, comedians, actors, and others, to recount one such fantastic repast. Muffie Meyer and her documentary subject Little Edie Beale go to a deli in Montreal. Kirk Douglas asks his father what he thought of him becoming an actor. Sara Moulton dines with her friend Julia Child. The Anglican priest George Pitcher has lunch with Jesus. And Heller herself connects with her father, the renowned author Joseph Heller.

These richly imagined stories are endlessly revealing, about the subject, the writer, the passage of time, regret, gratitude, and the power of enduring love.
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Release dateMay 12, 2020
ISBN9781683358916
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