Bibliograph

What happens next?, matters of life and death, Douglas Bauer

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Label

What happens next?, matters of life and death, Douglas Bauer

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

What happens next?

Oclc number

840465598

Responsibility statement

Douglas Bauer

Series statement

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

Sub title

matters of life and death

Summary

What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. In these clear-eyed, wry and graceful essays, Douglas Bauer presents with candor and humor the dual calendars of his own mortality and that of his aging parents, evoking the regrets and affirmations inherent in being human

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Here we were at exactly this moment -- Tenacity -- What was served -- Iowa wine -- Touching -- The life he left her -- Hoss's knee -- What we hunger for -- It's time

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