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Chargement... Letters from the Land of Cancerpar Walter Wangerin Jr.
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I got the chance to see Wangerin, to literally sit at his feet in a packed room at the 2018 Festival of Faith and Writing. He was skeletal, with oxygen, and he read from his powerful recent poetry. This book is from the initial experience of cancer, more than ten years earlier. It is powerful, incredible. I’ll have to add it to my mental syllabus of books on suffering, death, and dying. ( ) NCLA Review - This book is a compilation of letters written to friends and family after Pastor Wangerin is diagnosed with lung cancer. He is not anxious or fearful of death. He shares scripture as he draws comfort from God’s word in his assurance of eternal life. Love of family is also a strong element in Pastor Wangerin’s life. His wife, children and grandchildren support him with love and encouragement. In one of his letters he shares the trust and beauty of examining his granddaughter’s hand. Many of his letters take place during the unending appointments with numerous doctors, oncologists, technicians, and pharmacists. Other letters share details with his congregation and university students as he “dances” with cancer. Rating: 4 —BE aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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In Letters from the Land of Cancer, award-winning writer Walter Wangerin Jr. offers his profound insights into the greatest challenge we face: confronting our own mortality. "Shortly after the cancer had been diagnosed I began writing letters to the members of my immediate family, to relatives and to lifelong friends. The following book will consist mostly of those letters. They will invite you into my most intimate dancing with the cancer, even as that partner and I have over the last two years swung each other around the tiled floors of ballrooms and bathrooms. Dizzy still, and day by day, I sat and wrote: This is what I'm feeling right now. This is what I think..." From afternoon to afternoon of radiation, Wangerin wrote about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of undone tasks and bodily weakness. He wrote about the medical procedures he endured, the wild mood swings that unbalanced his days, and the fragilities and strengths of the relationships that surrounded him. Letters from the Land of Cancer is made up of these writings. Cadenced within the letters are Wangerin's eloquent meditations derived from his pastoral experiences with the faithful passage of death to life. Seldom has the great adventure of life and death been as beautifully presented as it is in this testimony to faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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