A Preparation for Death (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A Preparation for Death In his early thirties, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important relationships, and he was no longer doing the thing he cared about most: writing. This title documents the chaos and discovery of that time and the experiences that led him to that strange place.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 07 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Memoirs
- ISBN 13: 9780141048444 ISBN 10: 0141048441
- Sales rank: 516,745
Full description for A Preparation for Death
'Traditional autobiography is composed after the experience has passed. I wrote this book in the very panic of the experiences that inspired it'. In his early thirties, Greg Baxter found himself in a strange place. He hated his job, he was drinking excessively, he was sabotaging his most important relationships, and he was no longer doing the thing he cared about most: writing. Strangest of all, at this time he started teaching evening classes in creative writing - and his life changed utterly. "A Preparation for Death" is a document of the chaos and discovery of that time and of the experiences that led Greg Baxter to that strange place - an extraordinarily intimate account of literary failure (and its consequences), personal decay, and redemption through reading, writing, and truth-telling. Studded with vivid, loving portraits of the people closest to him - his Austrian grandmother, who narrowly survived the Second World War; his mother and father, both described with heartbreakingly close attention; and his cousin Walter, whose own demons provide a striking counterpoint to the author's - it is above all a stunningly vivid and searching self-portrait: possibly the most honest book you'll ever read.
