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An uplifting journey of truly seeing and appreciating what makes life worth living in the year following a terminal diagnosis

For fans of Ann Patchetts These Precious Days and Joan Didions The Year of Magical Thinking

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking 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

After thirtytwo 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 hes 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

Soon 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

Goodbye to Clocks Ticking is a work of wisdom and insight Joe Monningers aubade to the world that he knew and loved offers a pageturning suspenseful story to relish and to celebrate to share and to discuss to ponder and to learn from

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