How to Live Forever or Die Trying: On the New Immortality - Brossura

Appleyard, Bryan

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ISBN 10: 1416522832 ISBN 13: 9781416522836

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, 2008

Riassunto

"I want to live for ever" sang the Kids from Fame, and they are not alone: the search for immortality has been a constant human refrain throughout history. But medical science has improved at an exponential rate in recent decades and there are those who believe that the ability to cheat death will soon be within our reach: the first person to live to be 1,000 years old has, they say, already been born. What has happened to get people so excited about the prospect of eternal life? And if they are right, what would it mean for us as human beings? If death became negotiable, would we still fall in love or have children? Would we still, in fact, be human? HOW TO LIVE FOREVER OR DIE TRYINGtackles these and myriad other questions with dazzling skill. Funny, thought-provoking and often profound, it manages to grapple with the big issues of existence without blinding the reader with science, and sheds new light on why we are the way we are.

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Recensione:

'An enthralling essay on the contemporary meaning of dying and death. It is also a book about the meaning of life . . . [A] riveting helter-skelter of a literary journey'
John Cornwell, Sunday Times
'Profound, thought-provoking . . . Elegant and fluent'
Kathryn Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'Concise, clear and phenomenally interesting'
Alexander Waugh, Literary Review
'A serious, frightening, at times brilliant book on immortality'
William Leith, Spectator
'Every page contains interesting nuggets on what is perhaps the biggest of all the Big Questions . . . A few hours in the company of this book would be well spent'
Stephen Cave, Financial Times

L'autore:

Bryan Appleyard is a special feature writer and columnist for the SUNDAY TIMES. He is the author of several previous books including BRAVE NEW WORLDS: GENETICS AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1416522832
• ISBN 13: 9781416522836
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320