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First edition. |
| Description |
273 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
The author of The Autobiography of an Execution describes and confronts his own feelings and reaction to the end of life when his father-in-law becomes terminally ill, his beloved pet suffers liver failure and his young son begins to understand mortality. |
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""Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father. Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, he offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by giving voice to the anguish we all face--as parents, as children, as partners, as friends--when our loved ones die tragically, and far too soon"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Dow, David R.
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Death -- Social aspects.
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Death -- Psychological aspects.
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Bereavement.
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Loss (Psychology)
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Mortality.
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Terminally ill.
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Pets -- Death.
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Grief.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying.
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MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Oncology & Cancer.
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Dow, David R. (OCoLC)fst01780946
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Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
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Grief. (OCoLC)fst00947883
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Loss (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01002621
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
Things I have learned from dying |
| ISBN |
9781455575244 |
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1455575240 |
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