In Letters from the Land of Cancer Ebook, award-winning writer Walter
Wangerin Jr. offers his profound insights into the greatest challenge
we face: confronting our own mortality. “Shortly after the cancer
had been diagnosed I began writing letters to the members of my
immediate family, to relatives and to lifelong friends. The following
book will consist mostly of those letters. They will invite you into
my most intimate dancing with the cancer, even as that partner and I
have over the last two years swung each other around the tiled floors
of ballrooms and bathrooms. Dizzy still, and day by day, I sat and
wrote: This is what I’m feeling right now. This is what I
think.…” From afternoon to afternoon of radiation, Wangerin wrote
about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of
undone tasks and bodily weakness. He wrote about the medical
procedures he endured, the wild mood swings that unbalanced his days,
and the fragilities and strengths of the relationships that surrounded
him. Letters from the Land of Cancer Ebook is made up of these
writings. Cadenced within the letters are Wangerin’s eloquent
meditations derived from his pastoral experiences with the faithful
passage of death to life. Seldom has the great adventure of life and
death been as beautifully presented as it is in this testimony to
faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope.
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ISBN
9780310562924
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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