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Intimate essays on mortality, humanity, and adventure.

If you're drawn to stories that unite the profound with the seemingly mundane, "Love and Other Ways of Dying" could intrigue you. Michael Paterniti's essays traverse the globe, offering an intimate look into the lives of people and events that reverberate with universal truths. Each narrative promises a compassionate gaze into humanity's depths, marrying everyday encounters with the extraordinary - a combination that's sure to linger with you long after the pages are closed.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2016)
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Love and Other Ways of Dying

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ISBN: 9780385337021
Publisher: The Dial Press
Date of Publication: 2015-03-03
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Memoir, Essays, Travelogue
Goodreads rating: 4.01
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In 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. In the seventeen wide-ranging essays collected for the first time in Love and Other Ways of Dying, he brings his full literary powers to bear, pondering happiness and grief, memory and the redemptive power of human connection. In the remote Ukrainian 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 François 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
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Intimate essays on mortality, humanity, and adventure.

If you're drawn to stories that unite the profound with the seemingly mundane, "Love and Other Ways of Dying" could intrigue you. Michael Paterniti's essays traverse the globe, offering an intimate look into the lives of people and events that reverberate with universal truths. Each narrative promises a compassionate gaze into humanity's depths, marrying everyday encounters with the extraordinary - a combination that's sure to linger with you long after the pages are closed.

  • National Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
  • Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.