An unsentimental, unsparing and surprisingly funny account of cancer in the family. "When my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, I joked that I couldn't decide between overeating and alcoholism as a coping strategy. My wife suggested I write about it instead. She is always right. I couldn't write a cloying, sentimental story of inspiring courage, so instead I wrote what was real to me -- fear, lust, annoyance, love, fatigue, resentment, existential terror, horror movies, alcohol and country music. It's not pretty, but it is real. I hope you like it"

It Takes a Worried Man

Brendan Halpin

Biographies & Memoirs

Penguin??Books

<p>In September 2000, Brendan Halpin discovered that his thirty-two-year-old wife had stage four breast cancer. On October 7, he sat down to begin writing about what happens to a man who fears that his best friend might leave him forever.While his wife’s condition is always in his thoughts, Halpin’s memoir focuses more on the day-to-day, moment-to-moment concerns of a young English teacher forced into the role of temporary single parent to his young daughter, forced to test his relationship with his wife, and forced to face his own fears.It Takes a Worried Man brilliantly skewers everyone from medical professionals to family members and details how work, pop music, and movies about flesh-eating zombies helped to save Halpin’s sanity. His rants about popular culture, God, and children’s birthday parties add levity and a fast pace to the narrative.</p>

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Hamish Hamilton, London

Long Way Back

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Headline/Review

<p>A collection of thoughts, events, circumstances, "truth" discoveries, and observations, expressed in the several forms of writing, including prose, verse, and essay. There are both recurring and many different themes of subject matter within the Seven Sections and various sub-sections. For example, the beginning subsection of the first section is "Seventy Lessons Learned from Living Life." Rather than continuous chapter readings then, the reader can by scanning the Table of Contents move from one subject to another as may be of special interest in a short read, moving then to another part, as time and circumstance may permit. It is written to express thanks for an interesting and fortunate life journey of seventy seven years. It is also written with the hope that the reader might learn earlier in life some of the signposts of life that took the author all too many years to recognize and absorb.</p>

I Can See Clearly Now

Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance

Teen & Young Adult

Emily Franklin

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