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Author Eisenberg, Lee, 1946- author.

Title The point is : making sense of birth, death, and everything in between / Lee Eisenberg.

Publication Info. New York : Twelve, 2016.
©2016

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  128 EISENBERG    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  128 EIS    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  128 EIS    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  128 EISENBERG    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  128 EISENBERG    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  128 EISENBERG    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  128 EI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xvi, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-268) and index.
Contents PART I: The beginning -- Meet the scribbler -- Inside the memory factory -- Authorized and unabridged -- First jottings -- A God-shaped hole -- Is the beginning important? -- PART II: The middle -- Beware the elbow -- Interlude: other voices -- Breathing space -- Paper and dust -- Who needs happiness? -- The James Dean story -- How we live on -- Snowbirds at sunset -- PART III: The end -- Ghost theory -- In search of a good ending -- Butterfly in the cafe -- A place in the shade -- Is there ever a right time? -- Chiseled and engraved -- Precious find -- Diaries dearest -- Writing a beautiful sentence.
Summary Explores modern life and how to find meaning and purpose in personal and professional lives, providing research findings from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and through-provoking words of great thinkers including Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf.
Subject Life.
Conduct of life.
Conduct of life. (OCoLC)fst00874563
Life. (OCoLC)fst01198505
ISBN 9781455550463 hardcover
1455550469 hardcover
9781478979111 audio download
9781478964797 audio cd
9781455550470 electronic book
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