The Rest of Our Lives

The Rest of Our LivesWhen Tom's wife had an affair, he resolved to leave her once their children had grown up. Twelve years later, after driving his daughter to university, he remembers his pact and keeps driving West to visit friends, family and an old girlfriend. But he also has secrets of his own trouble at work and health issues and sometimes running away is the hardest thing to do.

Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition

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emphasizing the importance of embracing both human limitations and God’s limitless love

Ernaux had been receiving intensive chemo for breast cancer during the prior three months

or literary autobiography

His last piece of writing before his passing in 2007

For generations

you are right now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products

and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism

The three long stories in this volume show the range and virtuosity of Italy’s most imaginative writer

to understand the anger and frustrations of her fellow ethnic Malays who were fighting against (imagined) enemies and a new world order impacted by a virus that killed over seven million people globally

variant dialects and peculiarities of local experience