The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

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The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiography about my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battle against the infirmities of time.--From amazon.com.

subjects: Family,  Fathers and sons,  American Authors,  Nonfiction,  Biography & Autobiography,  Family relationships,  Biography,  Life,  Humanity,  Labor -- China,  Working class -- China,  Labor mobility -- China,  Labor market -- China,  Industrial relations -- China,  Travail -- Chine,  Travailleurs -- Chine,  Main-d'œuvre -- Mobilité -- Chine,  Marché du travail -- Chine,  Relations industrielles -- Chine,  BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor,  POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations,  Industrial relations,  Labor,  Labor market,  Labor mobility,  Working class,  Arbeidsomstandigheden,  Lagere klassen,  Migratie (demografie),  Arbeidsverhoudingen,  Arbeiter,  Ausbeutung,  Misshandlung,  China