{"product_id":"season-of-death","title":"Season of Death","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522880892\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (US)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eMark Raphael Baker was no stranger to death. Over seven years he had become a mourner three times over: for his first wife, for his brother and for his father. When diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he began to reflect on their deaths, his probable death and on Death as, in the words of Ecclesiastes, a 'season' that produced a large and bitter harvest for the Baker family. Powerful and conflicting emotions assailed him, but their destructive power was always defeated by his love of his family and of life, which never deserted him even when his spirit was most weary. Over the short course of his illness, he came to realise that to love both truly, he must die as the most authentic version of himself he can achieve. It enabled him to die with humbling grace and dignity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In\u003ci\u003e A Season of Death,\u003c\/i\u003e readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Fiftieth Gate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThirty Days \u003c\/i\u003ewill rediscover the many forms of Mark's humour, his candour and his depth of thought and feeling, albeit in a different key, as it must be when those virtues reveal themselves in expressions of vulnerability that fend off self-pity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There is profound sorrow in this memoir but there is matching joy and much love, interwoven by a fine writer and thinker into a story that will deepen one's understanding of life.","brand":"HARPERCOLLINS PUB","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41508136616069,"sku":"PR402958","price":48.7,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNY0P7SN9H72.jpg?v=1769777705","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/season-of-death","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}