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 Handlerβs new book, Itβs 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 , Itβs Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one manβs struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows heβs lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handlerβs defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. Itβs Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to manβeven if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.
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