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| It's Only Temporary: The Good News and the Bad News of Being Alive | 
 enlarge | Author: Evan Handler
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 15529
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1594489955
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.196994190092
EAN: 9781594489952
ASIN: 1594489955
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
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 Handlers new book, Its 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 , Its Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one mans struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows hes lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handlers defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. Its Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to maneven if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.
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 Revealing and emotional August 31, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter sent me Evan's book and it opened my eyes. Everyone can relate to his anger, joy and depression as he fights for life, success and happiness. There were times during the read that I wanted to shake him but in the end, I rejoiced for him.
Understanding a survivor August 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Evan's brutal honesty helped me understand other survivors that I know including my daughter. I cried and laughed and was angry and even talked back to him as I read his story. Evan's story is a must read.
 Get both & read Time On Fire First August 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading Time On Fire - one of the most compelling books I've ever read - simply couldn't wait for a sequel. Evan's accounts of his life are so openly honest & human, without succumbing to piousness.
It's Only Temporary follows along in the same vein, updating Evan's incredible journey to present day. He's glimpsed the fires of hell & come back to the "everyday" - neither simple or easy.
Can't wait for next book.
Read Time On Fire first.
 Don't waste your money or your time August 11, 2008
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I almost never write book reviews, but this book was so bad I felt the need to tell everyone not to waste their time reading it. The only thing I got out of this is that Evan Handler is an arrogant, self-centered person, who seems to want to share details of his boring sex life. Worse yet, he can't write.
Didn't even know he was an author! July 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I only knew Evan Handler from Sex and the City. I heard him interviewed and he was talking about his book, he was so funny and entertaining that I ordered his book. Loved it and know my Sister-in-law is loving it too! I would read any of his books!
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