Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections on Life in the Face of Death
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Rating | : | 4.58 (932 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1510724400 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-05-26 |
Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorBob Mitchell studied at Williams, Columbia, and Harvard, where he earned a PhD. He has had careers as a French professor, a professional athlete, an advertising Creative Director, and a novelist. He is the author of eleven books, including the acclaimed sport novels Match Made in Heaven and Once Upon a Fastball. in French and Comparative Literature. He lives in Carlsbad, California.
Time for a Heart-to-Heart is not your typical memoir, but is rather eclectic in tone at times philosophical, poetic, poignant, uplifting, confessional, hysterically funny, and nostalgic. A novelist at heart, Bob’s ordeal seemed like a memoir screaming to be written.Not simply a narrative of the physical and emotional experience of what it’s like to go through and recover from a transplant, it is at its core both a thought-provoking, introspective monologue, and an intimate dialogue with the reader, concerning life’s fundamental conflicts that the author pondered during his ordeal. These experiences and tribulations gave clarity and perspective to the things Bob had
in French and Comparative Literature. He is the author of eleven books, including the acclaimed sport novels Match Made in Heaven and Once Upon a Fastball. Bob Mitchell studied at Williams, Columbia, and Harvard, where he earned a PhD. He lives in Carlsbad, California.. He has had careers as a French professor, a professional athlete, an advertising Creative Director, and a novelist