{"product_id":"goodbye-to-clocks-ticking-joseph-monninger-9781586423605","title":"Goodbye to Clocks Ticking: How We Live While Dying","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn uplifting journey of truly seeing and appreciating what makes life worth living in the year following a terminal diagnosis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Ann Patchett's \u003ci\u003eThese Precious Days \u003c\/i\u003eand Joan Didion's \u003ci\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Clocks Ticking\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable book that tells the story of a singular year of challenges, insights, and peculiar gifts. It is also a sort of postcard from a place many of us will one day visit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter thirty-two years of teaching, Joe Monninger, an avid outdoorsman in robust health, was looking forward to a long retirement with the love of his life in a cabin beside a New England estuary. Three days after his last class, however, he's diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, even though he has not smoked for more than 30 years. It was May, and he might be dead by early fall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon Joe learned, however, that he was a genetic match for treatment with a drug that could not cure his cancer, but could prolong his life. With this temporary reprieve, he sets out to live life to the fullest and to write about the year of grace that follows, from his cancer treatments to his innermost thoughts.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Clocks Ticking\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of wisdom and insight. Joe Monninger's aubade to the world that he knew and loved offers a page-turning, suspenseful story to relish and to celebrate, to share and to discuss, to ponder and to learn from. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Full of heart and discovery.\" - \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, on Joseph Monninger's writing\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Monninger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1586423606\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781586423605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Steerforth Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.67h x 5.88w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/17\/2023","brand":"Joseph Monninger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44071646986495,"sku":"9781586423605","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d0b0b83-27f2-4ba8-af9e-2cb68ae6e00f.jpg?v=1685437336","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/goodbye-to-clocks-ticking-joseph-monninger-9781586423605","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}