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End of Your Life Book Club A Memoir

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ISBN-10: 0307739783

ISBN-13: 9780307739780

Edition: N/A

Authors: Will Schwalbe

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“What are you reading?”That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering from what her doctors believed was a rare type of hepatitis. Months later she was diagnosed with a form of advanced pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, often in six months or less.This is the inspiring true story of a son and his mother, who start a “book club” that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Over the next two years, Will and Mary Anne carry on conversations that are both wide-ranging and deeply…    
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Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.96" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Will Schwalbe has worked in publishing (most recently as senior vice president and editor in chief of Hyperion Books); digital media, as the founder and CEO of Cookstr.com; and as a journalist, writing for various publications including The New York Times and the South China Morning Post. He is on the boards of Yale University Press and the Kingsborough Community College Foundation. He is the coauthor, with David Shipley, of Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. Find out more about The End of Your Life Book Club on www.theendofyourlifebookclub.comFollow Will on Twitter at twitter.com/willsch/ Friend Will on Facebook at facebook.com/will.schwalbeFollow Will on Pinterest at…