简介
The author melds personal history with frank biological data about every stage of life, creating an "autobiographyabout my body" that seeks meaning in death, but moreover, life. Shields filters his frank--and usually foreboding--data through his own experience as a 51-year-old father with burgeoning back pain, contrasting his own gloomy tendencies with the defiant perspective of his own 97-year-old father, a man who has waged a lifelong, urgent battleagainst the infirmities of time. The author offers a meditation on mortality as he chronicles his own life and that of his family from cradle to grave, integrating biological details with cultural history and criticism to furnish a portrait of human existence as revealed through a single family.
目录
Prologue: Letter to My Father p. xv
Infancy and Childhood
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun p. 3
Decline and Fall (i) p. 9
Boys vs. Girls (i) p. 12
Origins p. 14
Paradise, Soon Lost p. 19
News Flash: We Are Animals p. 23
Motherhood p. 27
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food p. 29
Sex and Death (i) p. 32
Hoop Dream (ii) p. 34
Bloodline to Star Power (i) p. 37
Adolescence
Rattlesnake Lake p. 43
Boys vs. Girls (ii) p. 49
Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices p. 53
Superheroes p. 59
Hoop Dreams (iv and v) p. 66
Dying Just a Little p. 71
Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem p. 78
Sex and Death (ii) p. 81
Adulthood and Middle Age
Decline and Fall (ii) p. 87
Bloodline to Star Power (ii) p. 98
Boys vs. Girls (iii) p. 102
Sex Changes (Everything) p. 104
Memento Mori p. 108
The Trouble with Being Food p. 111
Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back p. 114
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole p. 121
Sex and Death (iii) p. 124
Hoop Dream (viii) p. 135
Old Age and Death
Decline and Fall (iii) p. 139
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead p. 151
Boys vs. Girls (iv) p. 160
Chronicle of Death Foretold p. 164
Death Is the Mother of Beauty p. 173
Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life p. 176
How to Live Forever (i) p. 181
How to Live Forever (ii) p. 189
Last Words p. 194
Bloodline to Star Power (iii) p. 200
Sex and Death (iv) p. 205
The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End p. 211
Exit Interviews p. 214
Notes for Eulogy for My Father p. 218
Permissions Acknowledgments p. 227
Infancy and Childhood
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun p. 3
Decline and Fall (i) p. 9
Boys vs. Girls (i) p. 12
Origins p. 14
Paradise, Soon Lost p. 19
News Flash: We Are Animals p. 23
Motherhood p. 27
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food p. 29
Sex and Death (i) p. 32
Hoop Dream (ii) p. 34
Bloodline to Star Power (i) p. 37
Adolescence
Rattlesnake Lake p. 43
Boys vs. Girls (ii) p. 49
Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices p. 53
Superheroes p. 59
Hoop Dreams (iv and v) p. 66
Dying Just a Little p. 71
Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem p. 78
Sex and Death (ii) p. 81
Adulthood and Middle Age
Decline and Fall (ii) p. 87
Bloodline to Star Power (ii) p. 98
Boys vs. Girls (iii) p. 102
Sex Changes (Everything) p. 104
Memento Mori p. 108
The Trouble with Being Food p. 111
Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back p. 114
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole p. 121
Sex and Death (iii) p. 124
Hoop Dream (viii) p. 135
Old Age and Death
Decline and Fall (iii) p. 139
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead p. 151
Boys vs. Girls (iv) p. 160
Chronicle of Death Foretold p. 164
Death Is the Mother of Beauty p. 173
Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life p. 176
How to Live Forever (i) p. 181
How to Live Forever (ii) p. 189
Last Words p. 194
Bloodline to Star Power (iii) p. 200
Sex and Death (iv) p. 205
The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End p. 211
Exit Interviews p. 214
Notes for Eulogy for My Father p. 218
Permissions Acknowledgments p. 227
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