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Title Statement | The end of your life book club / [electronic resource]. Will Schwalbe. |
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Author | Schwalbe, Will |
Publication | 2012. |
Extent of Item | 1 online resource |
ISBN | 9780307399687 (electronic bk) |
Audience & Ratings | Text Difficulty 5 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 6.8 |
Summary | Mary Anne Schwalbe was a renowned educator who filled such august positions as Director of Admissions at Harvard and Director of College Counseling at New York's prestigious Dalton School. She also felt it incumbent upon herself to educate the less fortunate and spent the last 10 years of her life building libraries in Afghanistan. But her story here begins with a mocha, dispensed from a machine in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Over coffee, Will casually asks his mom what she's been reading. The conversation they have grows into tradition: soon they mutually agree to read the same books and share them together as Mary Anne waits for her chemotherapy treatments. The books they read, chosen by both, range from the classic to the popular: from The Painted Veil to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ; from My Father's Tears to the Christian spiritual classic Daily Strength for Daily Needs . Their discussions reveal how books become increasingly important to the connection between a remarkable woman whose life is coming to a close, and a young man becoming closer to his mom than ever before. |
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