Perfect Understanding: a meditation on life-threatening illness - Softcover

Schreiber, Mark

9780997616781: Perfect Understanding: a meditation on life-threatening illness

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997616784 ISBN 13: 9780997616781

Publisher: Canal House, 2017

Perfect Understanding is a lyrical meditation on the challenges and even rewards of enduring a life-threatening illness. But unlike most survivor stories, which look back, Perfect Understanding was written in the midst of the crisis, before any signs of recovery. But then this really isn't a story of survival, but of living through the process of facing one's mortality. I wanted to write a book that would not be depressing, however, that would even be entertaining, and that might enlighten and benefit others, whether suffering from a rare disease like mine, or from cancer, or for family members and friends. I take the reader on an imaginary journey, a walk along a Sicilian beach I had visited before my illness, recalling the salubrity of nature even while facing its perils.

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About the Author:

Mark Schreiber has been writing full time since graduating high school at age fifteen. His first novel, Princes in Exile, was published in hardcover by Beaufort Books in 1984, made into a feature film and translated into German, Russian, Danish, Dutch and Japanese. He has twice received the State of Ohio Literary Fellowship. He has written over thirty-five books, mostly adult literary fiction, but also young adult fiction, narrative nonfiction and illustrated educational works.

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