02516cam a2200361 i 4500 1023978288 TxAuBib 20231027120000.0 230724s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023938604 9781638088509 alk. paper 1638088500 alk. paper (OCoLC)1391093403 TxAuBib rda Monninger, Joseph, author. Goodbye to clocks ticking : how we live while dying : a memoir / Joseph Monninger. Center Point Large Print edition. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. ©2023. 279 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Regular print version previously published by Steerforth Press LLC. "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 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 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 Monninger's aubade to the world that he knew and loved offers a page-turning, suspenseful story to relish and to celebrate, to share and to discuss, to ponder and to learn from"-- Provided by publisher. 20231027. Monninger, Joseph Health. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Authors, American 21st century Biography. Terminally ill United States Biography. Cancer Patients United States Biography. Large type books. fast