Now That I Am Gone
A Memoir Beyond Recall
Published on 13. November 2018
264 pages
978-1-64428-023-2 (ISBN)
Description
Do you ever look forward to what life will be like once you are dead? Functioning as a double-rainbow bridge connecting the ordinary now with the stack of memories that create the past and the netherworld ahead, Now That I Am Gone is the memoir of an everyman's existence as it goes on without him. His wife, his friends, his dogs, they all navigate to fill in the empty spaces he has left behind. As his ashes cool, old rivals and older paramours swoop in to claim his spoils. His life has flashed before his eyes. His regrets, what he will miss, what he is happy to leave behind, all the ways he had been hoping to depart―all of this and more he has confessed. The only chapter left is to reveal what happens to him in the place he goes once he is gone, and that hidden knowledge is exactly what comes next.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
1,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-64428-023-2 (9781644280232)
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11/2018
Rare Bird Books
€17.50
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Person
Allan MacDonell is the author of Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine and Punk Elegies: True Tales of Death Trip Kids, Wrongful Sex and Trial by Angel Dust. MacDonell studied creative writing at San Francisco State University. He was a defining contributor to L.A.'s Slash magazine. Since the turn of the millennium, MacDonell has been separating real from fake on Internet platforms like Buzz Media, Spin Media, Participant Media, and marijuana news-and-lifestyle site Kindland. He is currently director of TheSkeeve.com.
Content
- Intro
- Death's Foreword
- Five Stages of Schmaltz
- 1
- A Few Deaths I Have Known and Some I Dreamed
- 2
- My Life as It Passed Before My Eyes
- 3
- What I Miss the Most (As if I Miss Anything)
- 4
- My On-Demand Funeral
- 5
- All of You I've Left Behind
- 6
- The Dogs Carry On
- 7
- The Legacy of My Work
- 8
- Speaking Ill of Me When I'm Dead
- 9
- The Dispersal of the Earthly Goods
- 10
- The Dispersal of the Ashes
- 11
- Some Things I Don't Mind Never Knowing Again
- 12
- A Dreadful Afterlife
- 13
- An Afterlife I Could Live With
- Acknowledgments
