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001 2013032569
003 DLC
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008 131107s2014 nyu 000 0aeng
010 $a 2013032569
020 $a9781455575244 (hardback)
020 $z9781478925309 (audio download)
020 $z9781455575237 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBF575.D35$bD69 2014
082 00 $a155.9/37$223
084 $aBIO026000$aSOC036000$aMED058160$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDow, David R.
245 10 $aThings I've learned from dying :$ba book about life /$cDavid R. Dow.
246 3 $aThings I have learned from dying
250 $aFirst Edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bTwelve,$c2014.
300 $a273 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a""Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone." In his riveting, artfully written memoir The Autobiography of an Execution, David Dow enraptured readers with a searing and frank exploration of his work defending inmates on death row. But when Dow's father-in-law receives his own death sentence in the form of terminal cancer, and his gentle dog Winona suffers acute liver failure, the author is forced to reconcile with death in a far more personal way, both as a son and as a father. Told through the disparate lenses of the legal battles he's spent a career fighting, and the intimate confrontations with death each family faces at home, THINGS I'VE LEARNED FROM DYING offers a poignant and lyrical account of how illness and loss can ravage a family. Full of grace and intelligence, Dow offers readers hope without cliché and reaffirms our basic human needs for acceptance and love by giving voice to the anguish we all face--as parents, as children, as partners, as friends--when our loved ones die tragically, and far too soon"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology)
650 0 $aDeath.
650 0 $aGrief.
600 10 $aDow, David R.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aMEDICAL / Nursing / Oncology & Cancer.$2bisacsh