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1 online resource |
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Cover; Prelims; Author Bio; Author Photo; Inside Title; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Location, Location, Location; 2. Names; 3. A Place to Read; 4. Meat and 3 Veg; 5. My Hypochondria; 6. Men in Uniform; 7. The Victims and the Furies; 8. Seeing Mexico; 9. Communing with the Dead; 10. A Dream of Learning; 11. Notebooks; 12. A Fountain Pen of Good Repute; 13. Flying Lessons; 14. Selling My Library; 15. Watching Birds and Stars; 16. A Round with Friends; 17. The Place Where It Happened; 18. A Retiree Reads Proust and Montaigne; 19. On Not Being E.B. White |
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20. On the Road Again21. The King in Winter; 22. My Next Read; Back Cover |
| Summary |
In this essay collection, Michael Cohen tells us about his surprise encounter with the remains of Frida Kahlo, about his father's murder, and about his son's close shave with death on the highway. His subjects can be as commonplace as golfing with close friends, amateur astronomy, birding, or learning to fly at the age of sixty. But he asks difficult questions about how we are grounded in space and time, how we are affected by our names, how a healthy person can turn into a hypochondriac, and how we might commune with the dead. And throughout he measures, compares and interprets his experience |
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Cohen, Michael
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Men -- United States -- Biography
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American essays -- 20th century
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Books and reading -- United States.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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American essays
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Books and reading
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Men
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781922120939 |
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1922120936 |
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