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Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living / Mark C.; barbara pease

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Columbia: 2009. New York,Description: 292 pISBN:
  • 9780231147804
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.9 TAY-F
Contents:
Day / Night -- Beginning / Origin -- Elsewhere / Silence -- Reflections / Reticence -- Premonitions / Postcards -- Home / Afterlife -- Stealth / Sacrifice -- Killing / Elemental -- Abandonment / Mortality -- Displacement / Place -- Creativity / Thinking -- E/Mergence / Emptiness -- Walls / Garden -- Painting / Play -- Perhaps / Numbers -- Pleasure / Money -- Vocation / Teaching -- Last / Burial -- Solitude / Loneliness -- Things / Ghosts -- Levity / Grief -- Humor / Monsters -- Faction / Dishonesty -- Inheritance / Withholding -- Letting Go / Dinnertime -- Compassion / Suffering -- Clouds / Waiting -- Freedom / Terror -- Forgiveness / Cruelty -- Daughters / Obsession -- Failure / Success -- Balance / Simplicity -- Face / Aging -- Stigma / Autoimmunity -- Patience / Chronicity -Technology / Addiction -- Pain / Intimacy -- Blindness / Aura -- Cancer / Surviving -- Trust / Bitterness -- Hands / Will -- Secrets / Tripping -- Strangers / Tips -- Sharing / Fatigue -- Idleness / Guilt -- Driving / Accident -- Imperfection / Vulnerability -- Friendship / Doubt -- Love / Fidelity -- Hope / Despair -- Happiness / Melancholy -- Ordinary / Extraordinary.
Summary: "Field notes from elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, Taylor explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated ..."--Jacket.
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Day / Night --
Beginning / Origin --
Elsewhere / Silence --
Reflections / Reticence --
Premonitions / Postcards --
Home / Afterlife --
Stealth / Sacrifice --
Killing / Elemental --
Abandonment / Mortality --
Displacement / Place --
Creativity / Thinking --
E/Mergence / Emptiness --
Walls / Garden --
Painting / Play --
Perhaps / Numbers --
Pleasure / Money --
Vocation / Teaching --
Last / Burial --
Solitude / Loneliness --
Things / Ghosts --
Levity / Grief --
Humor / Monsters --
Faction / Dishonesty --
Inheritance / Withholding --
Letting Go / Dinnertime --
Compassion / Suffering --
Clouds / Waiting --
Freedom / Terror --
Forgiveness / Cruelty --
Daughters / Obsession --
Failure / Success --
Balance / Simplicity --
Face / Aging --
Stigma / Autoimmunity --
Patience / Chronicity -Technology / Addiction --
Pain / Intimacy --
Blindness / Aura --
Cancer / Surviving --
Trust / Bitterness --
Hands / Will --
Secrets / Tripping --
Strangers / Tips --
Sharing / Fatigue --
Idleness / Guilt --
Driving / Accident --
Imperfection / Vulnerability --
Friendship / Doubt --
Love / Fidelity --
Hope / Despair --
Happiness / Melancholy --
Ordinary / Extraordinary.


"Field notes from elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, Taylor explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated ..."--Jacket.

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