The Memory Chalet - Tony Judt
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"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." -Tony Jud...
"It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head." -Tony Jud...
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Very good, hardcover with dust jacket, 226 pp., 14x21x2 cm 2nd printing, letterbox mail [Auteur: Judt, Tony] [Pagina's: 226] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Penguin Press] [Jaar: 2010] [Titel: The Memory Chalet]
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