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 Handlers new book, Its 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 , Its Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one mans struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows hes lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handlers defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. Its Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to maneven if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.
Author: Evan Handler
Hardcover:
240 pages
Company: Riverhead Hardcover
(2008-05-01)
ISBN: 1594489955
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