In My Time of Dying: From the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm

di Sebastian Junger (Autore)

Fourth Estate, 2024

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. **'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger travelled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when we are forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery. ‘Stunning … A powerful book that comes as close as anything I’ve read in explaining what it means to be human’ JAMES PATTERSON 'An instant classic that filled me with wonder, gratitude and awe' WILL SCHWALBE 'A stunning account I didn’t so much read as inhale, awed and riveted and forever changed' MICHAEL FINKEL 'Riveting and resonant' Publishers Weekly In In My Time of Dying, Junger takes us on a journey through the corridors of spirituality and philosophy, exploring the enigma of life and death. His memoirs, a compelling fusion of medical drama and personal revelation, invite us to grapple with the existential questions that define our existence. For fans of Joe Simpson (Walking the Wrong Side of the Grass), Malcolm Gaskill (Hellish Nell), Stephen E. Ambrose (Crazy Horse and Custer), Jonathan Franklin (438 giorni), and Peter Zuckerman (Buried in the Sky). HarperCollins 2024

• Autore: Sebastian Junger
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 06:24:00
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Fourth Estate
• EAN: 9780008670221

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