It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being AliveA provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death. Actor and author Evan Handler’s new book, It’s Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has created a poignant and wildly funny rumination on the ironies of human existence. Structured as a collection of incisive and probing autobiographical stories , It’s Only Temporaryis a startlingly candid portrait of one man’s struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows he’s lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handler’s defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. It’s Only Temporarycelebrates the transformation from boy to man—even if it took Handler more than forty years to get there. |
Contents
Separation Anxiety | 1 |
Remember Richard Burr | 16 |
The Sickest First Kiss | 23 |
The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made or I Dont | 40 |
Menace to Society | 47 |
My Clock Ticks Too | 82 |
The TwoMonth Second Date | 102 |
You Two Meet? | 154 |
You Dont Know Where You Are Until Youre Somewhere Else | 196 |
On Death and Dying | 202 |
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