{"product_id":"love-and-other-ways-of-dying-essays-paperback","title":"Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Paterniti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - \u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS - \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn this moving, lyrical, and ultimately uplifting collection of essays, Michael Paterniti turns a keen eye on the full range of human experience, introducing us to an unforgettable cast of everyday people.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michael Paterniti is one of the most original and empathic storytellers working today. His writing has been described as \"humane, devastating, and beautiful\" by Elizabeth Gilbert, \"spellbinding\" by Anthony Doerr, and \"expansive and joyful\" by George Saunders. In the seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in \u003ci\u003eLove and Other Ways of Dying, \u003c\/i\u003ehe brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the ways in which the racial divide turns neighbor against neighbor. In each instance, Paterniti illuminates the full spectrum of human experience, introducing us to unforgettable everyday people and bygone legends, exploring the big ideas and emotions that move us. Paterniti reenacts Fran ois Mitterrand's last meal in a rustic dining room in France and drives across America with Albert Einstein's brain in the trunk of his rental car, floating in a Tupperware container. He delves with heartbreaking detail into the aftermath of a plane crash off the coast of Nova Scotia, an earthquake in Haiti, and a tsunami in Japan--and, in searing swirls of language, unearths the complicated, hidden truths these moments of extremity teach us about our ability to endure, and to love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Michael Paterniti has spent the past two decades grappling with some of our most powerful subjects and incomprehensible events, taking an unflinching point of view that seeks to edify as it resists easy answers. At every turn, his work attempts to make sense of both love and loss, and leaves us with a profound sense of what it means to be human. As he writes in the Introduction to this book, \"The more we examine the grooves and scars of this life, the more free and complete we become.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Michael Paterniti and \u003ci\u003eLove and Other Ways of Dying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the best books I've read all year . . . These pieces are exceptional artifacts of literary journalism.\"\u003cb\u003e--Mark O'Connell, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"These pieces are extraordinary. . . . Journalism elevated beyond its ordinary capacities, well into the realm of literature.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eColumbia Journalism Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A fearless, spellbinding collection of inquiries by a brilliant, globally minded essayist whose writing is magic and whose worldview brims with compassion . . . The size of Michael Paterniti's curiosity is matched only by the size of his heart.\"\u003cb\u003e--Anthony Doerr, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Michael Paterniti is a genius.\"\u003cb\u003e--Elizabeth Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Signature of All Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the best living practitioners of the art of literary journalism, able to fully elucidate and humanize the everyday and the epic.\"\u003cb\u003e--Dave Eggers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Circle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In each of these essays, Michael Paterniti unveils life for us, the beauty and heartbreak of it, as we would never see it ourselves but now can never forget it. Paterniti is brilliant--a rare master--and one of my favorite authors on earth.\"\u003cb\u003e--Lily King, author of \u003ci\u003eEuphoria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Paterniti \u003c\/b\u003eis a journalist, an essayist, and the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eDriving Mr. Albert \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Telling Room, \u003c\/i\u003ethe latter\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003enamed one of the best books of the year by NPR, \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e. Nominated eight times for the National Magazine Award, he is also the recipient of an NEA grant and two MacDowell Fellowships. His stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Harper's, Outside, Esquire, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGQ, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he works as a correspondent. He is the co-founder of a children's storytelling center (www.tellingroom.org) in Portland, Maine, where he lives with his wife and their three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 28, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755665588512,"sku":"9780385337038","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1fcb3da017babd6ca67782bab113f542.webp?v=1780065237","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/love-and-other-ways-of-dying-essays-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}