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The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive
Riverhead
May 2008
On Sale: May 1, 2008
240 pages ISBN: 1594489955 EAN: 9781594489952 Hardcover
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A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man
learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-
hand combat with death. Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only
Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of
meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality.
In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-
than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from
a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago,
Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing
every human being: How can a person live well with the
knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has
created a poignant and wildly funny rumination on the
ironies of human existence. Structured as a collection of incisive and probing
autobiographical stories , It’s Only Temporary is a
startlingly candid portrait of one man’s struggle to find
love and happiness within a life he knows he’s lucky just
to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and
shocking, Handler’s defiantly unconventional memoir
ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a
classic coming-of-age tale. It’s Only Temporary celebrates
the transformation from boy to man—even if it took Handler
more than forty years to get there.
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