Terry Pratchett: Shaking Hands With Death, Gebunden
Shaking Hands With Death
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- DK, 10/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529971323
- Artikelnummer:
- 12282806
- Umfang:
- 80 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 250 g
- Maße:
- 184 x 113 mm
- Stärke:
- 10 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 2.10.2025
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett's essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.
With a new Afterword by Peter Serafinowicz
and an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins
'Eloquent and essential' Guardian
'A poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always brilliant read' 5-star reader review
'Most men don't fear death. They fear those things - the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb - which precede, by microseconds if you're lucky, and many years if you're not, the moment of death.'
When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it.
In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture, he argues for our right to choose - our right to a good life, and a good death too.
Biografie
Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of over three dozen novels, is one of the worlds best-selling novelists writing in the English language. His books have sold more than 65 milllion copies worldwide. In addition to his phenomenaland hugely popularDiscworld series for adults, Terry is the beloved author several childrens books. He was awarded Britains highest honor for a childrens novel, the Carnegie Medal. In 2008, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature. Terry lives in England, where he writes all the time. The characters and setting of THE TIFFANY ACHING ADVENTURES are dear to the authors heart, reflecting (obliquely) much of his own childhood in Englands Chalk countrythe part of the country where he still lives today. Mr. Pratchett and his wife, Lyn, have one grown daughter and many cats. Anyone can find out more about Terry at Harpers own website: terrypratchettbooks.com. In 2008, Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers Disease.
