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WHAT COMES NEXT AND HOW TO LIKE IT
A Memoir
From the bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, an exuberant, superbly written memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life.
What comes next? Readers who loved Abigail Thomas's bestselling memoir A THREE DOG LIFE have been wondering. Abigail herself has wondered. What comes after the devastating loss of her husband, a process both sudden and slow? What form does a lifelong friendship take after certain lines are crossed? How to cope with a daughter's diagnosed illness? Or the death of a beloved dog? Is life worth living without three Manhattans before dinner? How do you paint the ocean on a sheet of glass?
And how to like it? How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? How to find comfort, and pleasure? Who are our most trusted, valuable companions and what will we do for them? Instead of painting an ocean, paint a forest, turn it over, do some scraping, and presto: there is the ocean, beautiful, many colors blue, deep water, no sky. When you’ve given up, when you least expect it, there it is.
What Comes Next and How to Like It is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many things, but at the center is a friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago. Through marriages, child raising, the vicissitudes and tragedies of life, it is this deep, rich bond that has sustained her.
Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. She was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Her memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also author of Safekeeping, a memoir, and Thinking About Memoir. When Thomas can’t write, she paints. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her three dogs.
And how to like it? How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? How to find comfort, and pleasure? Who are our most trusted, valuable companions and what will we do for them? Instead of painting an ocean, paint a forest, turn it over, do some scraping, and presto: there is the ocean, beautiful, many colors blue, deep water, no sky. When you’ve given up, when you least expect it, there it is.
What Comes Next and How to Like It is an extraordinarily moving memoir about many things, but at the center is a friendship between Abigail Thomas and a man she met thirty-five years ago. Through marriages, child raising, the vicissitudes and tragedies of life, it is this deep, rich bond that has sustained her.
Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. She was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Her memoir, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also author of Safekeeping, a memoir, and Thinking About Memoir. When Thomas can’t write, she paints. She lives in Woodstock, NY with her three dogs.
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Published 2015-03-24 by Scribner |
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Published 2015-03-24 by Scribner |