It's Only Temporary: The Good News and Bad News Of Being Alive
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A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.Actor and author Evan Handler's new book, It's Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has created a poignant and wildly funny rumination on the ironies of human existence.Structured as a collection of incisive and probing autobiographical stories , It's Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one man's struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows he's lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handler's defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. It's Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to man—even if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.David DuchovnyChange is good - that's the credo Evan Handler reinvigorates with the hard won wisdom of this hard luck story. Handler's prose style is disarmingly funny and smoothly conversational. He writes like a guy who's just happy to be here, and a little pissed off at you if you're not. As he has worked hard to shape himself into a good actor, life has shaped him into a good man. The cover photo is worth the price alone. (David Duchovny, actor, director, screenwriter)
Preface xi"Separation" Anxiety 1Remember Richard Burr 16The Sickest First Kiss 23I Don't Know 32The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made, or "I Don't" 40Menace to Society 47My Life Story 55My Clock Ticks, Too 82Tiffany '99, Sotheby's '01 85The Two-Month Second Date 102Medicine Man 118Thanksgiving Days 134Italian Dreaming 145How Did You Two Meet? 154A Little Fame and Lots of Women 169Renovations and Terminations 179You Don't Know Where You Are, Until You're Somewhere Else 196On Death and Dying 202The End Is the Beginning (of the Beginning of the End) 212Acknowledgments 221
