{"product_id":"9780771009631","title":"This Is Not the End of Me: Lessons on Living from a Dying Man","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eBascaramurty, Dakshana\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMcClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e8\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC – The Best Canadian Nonfiction of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003ci\u003e’s Globe 100: Our Favourite Books of 2020\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChatelaine’s \u003ci\u003e10 Best Books of 2020\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Walrus’s\u003ci\u003e Favourite Books of 2020\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers of Paul Kalanithi's \u003ci\u003eWhen Breath Becomes Air\u003c\/i\u003e and Will Schwalbe\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003ethe moving, inspiring story of a young husband and father who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer at the age of thirty-three, sets out to build a legacy for his infant son. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ei can't make you feel what it's like to be a young, dumb, naïve thirty-year-old sitting in the back of a walk-in clinic waiting to be handed what is essentially a death sentence any more than i can show you what it feels like to have a husband or father or child who's dying and knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it. i can only describe to you how i feel today. angry. at peace. scared. grateful. a giant, spiky, flowering heart-shaped bouquet of contradictions. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLayton Reid was a globe-trotting, risk-taking, sunshine-addicted bachelor--then came a melanoma diagnosis. Cancer startled him out of his arrested development--he returned home to Halifax to work as a wedding photographer--and remission launched him into a new, passionate life as a husband and father-to-be. When the melanoma returned, now at Stage IV, Layton and his family put all their stock into a punishing alternative therapy, hoping for a cure. \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not the End of Me \u003c\/i\u003erecounts Layton's three-year journey as he tried desperately to stay alive for his young son, Finn, and then found purpose in preparing Finn for a world without him. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith incredible intimacy, grit, and empathy, reporter Dakshana Bascaramurty casts an unsentimental eye on who her good friend was: his effervescence, his twisted wit, his anger, his vulnerability. Interweaving Layton's own reflections--his diaries written for Finn, his letters to his wife, Candace, and his public journal--she paints a keenly observed portrait of Layton's remarkable evolution. In detailing the ugly, surprising, and occasionally funny ways in which Layton and his family faced his mortality, the book offers an unflinching look at how a person dies, and how we might build a legacy in our information-saturated age. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePowerful and unvarnished, \u003ci\u003eThis is Not the End of Me\u003c\/i\u003e is about someone who didn't get a very happy ending, but learned to squeeze as much life as possible from his final days.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210394235135,"sku":"9780771009631","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/9780771009631_s600x595.jpg?v=1775584743","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780771009631","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}