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Requiem for the living : a memoir / Jeff Metcalf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metcalf, Jeff, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metcalf, Jeff.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After nine years of keeping his prostate cancer at bay, the clinical trials and cancer drugs lost their effectiveness.Instead of withdrawing from the world, Jeff Metcalf chose to dive deeper into writing, challenging himself to write one essay each week for a year.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Baptism
- The Killing Fields
- The Door
- Gypsy Life
- Giving Up the Ghost
- The Battle of Hastings
- Hung
- Hongerwinter
- Zola, Queen of the Lilliputians
- The Guy with the Big Ears
- Magpie
- Jungle Dream
- Hush Puppies
- Promise
- Silkies
- White Goats and Black Bees
- The Great Blasket Islands
- Gabe's Pub
- Finally, the Grants
- Driving Lesson
- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
- Drifting
- Three Down
- Bullard's Bar
- Cooking Lesson
- Birds of Prey
- Our Family Album
- Surprise Wedding
- The Burn
- Death Row, Part 1
- Death Row, Part 2
- Ghost Brother
- The Great Escape
- Being
- Full Circle
- Bone Deep
- Unspoken
- Early Morning Blues
- Queen of Hearts
- Split Second
- Lay Me Down
- What's Left?
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- "Published in cooperation with the Utah Division of Arts and Museums."
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60781-387-4
- OCLC:
- 1125377460
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