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When I Was Mortal

2013-01-31 Fiction
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Release : 2013-01-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis When I Was Mortal by : Javier Marías

Download or read book When I Was Mortal written by Javier Marías. This book was released on 2013-01-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark narratives that make up When I Was Mortal by Javier Marías, winner of the Dublin IMPAC prize and author of the bestselling A Heart So White, a dapper Paris doctor dispenses a treatment for dissatisfied wives. A mother auditions for her first porn movie. A writer working on a study of pain makes himself the subject of his experiments. A voyeur mistakes a murderer for a fellow peeping tom ... these are some of the characters observed by the narrator of these chilling stories. Ironic, unsettling, imbued with dread and with droll humour, Javier Marías' short tales cast a shrewd, sardonic eye on humanity. Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He has published ten novels, two collections of short stories and several volumes of essays. His work has been translated into thirty-two languages and won a dazzling array of international literary awards, including the prestigious Dublin IMPAC award for A Heart So White. He is also a highly practised translator into Spanish of English authors, including Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Thomas Browne and Laurence Sterne. He has held academic posts in Spain, the United States and in Britain, as Lecturer in Spanish Literature at Oxford University.

When I was Mortal

2009-04-14 Fiction
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Release : 2009-04-14
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 169/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I was Mortal by : Javier Marías

Download or read book When I was Mortal written by Javier Marías. This book was released on 2009-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen stories by Javier Marías -- "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (Boston Sunday Globe) -- commissioned from numerous literary publications around the world.

When I was Mortal

2000 Fiction
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Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 315/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis When I was Mortal by : Javier Marías

Download or read book When I was Mortal written by Javier Marías. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Javier Marias was born in Madrid in 1951. His novels (which have sold more than two and a half million copies worldwide) have been translated into two dozen languages and have won the Ciudad de Barcelona prize, The Spanish Critics' Award, the Premio Internacional de Novela Romulo Gallegos, the Prize Femina Etranger, the Nelly-Sachs Prize, and the Dublin International Impac Award.

This Mortal Coil

2017-11-07 Young Adult Fiction
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Release : 2017-11-07
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 352/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis This Mortal Coil by : Emily Suvada

Download or read book This Mortal Coil written by Emily Suvada. This book was released on 2017-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Redefines ‘unputdownable.’” —Amie Kaufman, New York Times bestselling author of Iluminae “I was thrilled. I was shocked.” —NPR “Stunning twists and turns.” —BCCB (starred review) In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague. Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?

Being Mortal

2014-10-07 Social Science
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Release : 2014-10-07
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 551/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Being Mortal by : Atul Gawande

Download or read book Being Mortal written by Atul Gawande. This book was released on 2014-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times Bestseller In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end.

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