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Author:

Bauer, Douglas, author.

Title:

What happens next? : matters of life and death / Douglas Bauer.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 151 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American essays--21st century.
Aging parents.
Parent and adult child.
Life.
Meaning (Philosophy)

Contents:

Here we were at exactly this moment -- Tenacity -- What was served -- Iowa wine -- Touching -- The life he left her -- Hoss's knee -- What we hunger for -- It's time.

Summary:

What is life about but the continuous posing of the questions: what happens next, and what do we make of it when it arrives? In these highly evocative personal essays, Douglas Bauer weaves together the stories of his own and his parents' lives, the meals they ate, the work and rewards and regrets that defined them, and the inevitable betrayal by their bodies as they aged. In these clear-eyed, wry and graceful essays, Douglas Bauer presents with candor and humor the dual calendars of his own mortality and that of his aging parents, evoking the regrets and affirmations inherent in being human.

Series:

Iowa and the Midwest Experience

ISBN:

1609381831
9781609381837

OCLC:

(OCoLC)840465598

LCCN:

2013934854

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

RUPC135 -- Manson Public Library (Manson)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

GWPB501 -- Prairie City Public Library (Prairie City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

CQPE926 -- Washington Free Public Library (Washington)