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Also by Evan Handler:

It's Only Temporary, May 2008
Hardcover

It's Only Temporary
Evan Handler

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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