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Half a Life

Darin Strauss

3.58/5 (4131 ratings)

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Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."

So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past-collision life - the funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case? and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

Format:

Pages:: 205 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: McSweeney's Publishing

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 1934781703

ISBN13:: 9781934781708

kindle Asin:: B004NNUZ3C

Half a Life

Darin Strauss

3.58/5 (4131 ratings)

Read Download

Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

"Half my life ago, I killed a girl."

So begins Darin Strauss' Half a Life, the true story of how one outing in his father's Oldsmobile resulted in the death of a classmate and the beginning of a different, darker life for the author. We follow Strauss as he explores his startling past-collision life - the funeral, the queasy drama of a high-stakes court case? and what starts as a personal tale of a tragic event opens into the story of how to live with a very hard fact: we can try our human best in the crucial moment, and it might not be good enough. Half a Life is a nakedly honest, ultimately hopeful examination of guilt, responsibility, and living with the past.

Format:

Pages:: 205 pages

Publication:: 2010

Publisher:: McSweeney's Publishing

Edition:: 1st Edition, First Edition

Language:

ISBN10:: 1934781703

ISBN13:: 9781934781708

kindle Asin:: B004NNUZ3C

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