Bibliograph

Looking everywhere but right here, a memoir, Lester Alan Kalish

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Looking everywhere but right here, a memoir, Lester Alan Kalish

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Looking everywhere but right here

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Lester Alan Kalish

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

There was no place like Brooklyn in the 1950s or a better view than the one from the roof of author Lester Alan Kalish's 5-story apartment building. The streets were playgrounds. Only a parent's call for dinner could interrupt the joys of childhood. But, as in all stories, life cannot always be this idyllic.Years later a mother's premonition and a father's cancer diagnosis would create a fear of dying and a fierce determination to avoid mirroring his parents' fates. Embarking on a journey to discover who he was, Kalish broke away from conventional wisdom that suggests one's destiny is predetermined by genetics.Twenty five years after his father's diagnosis a renewed awareness of life and death gave birth to a significant file, one that continued to expand with the latest cancer research. Fate had made one thing abundantly clear for Kalish: it takes the greater part of a lifetime to find what one is looking for

Target audience

adult

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