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Goodbye to clocks ticking : how we live while dying : a memoir / Joseph Monninger.

Monninger, Joseph, (author.).

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"After thirty-two 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, he's diagnosedwith 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781586423605 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 196 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Lebanon, NH : Steerforth Press, [2023]
Subject: Monninger, Joseph > Health.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Cancer > Patients > United States > Biography.
Terminally ill > United States > Biography.
Genre: Biographies.
Personal narratives.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Joseph Monninger has published many novels for adults and young readers, three books of nonfiction, and dozens of articles for periodicals such as Sports Illustrated, American Heritage, Scientific American and the Boston Globe. An international bestseller, his work has been widely translated and published in more than forty countries. Goodbye to Clocks Ticking is his account of life after receiving a fatal lung cancer diagnosis three days into his retirement. He has lived beside the Baker River in New Hampshire for more than thirty years where he also worked as a college professor, fishing guide, and dog sled driver.


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