Transience - Jones, Nick

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Résumé :
In Transience, Nick Jones moves across the themes that touch on our fragility and mortality. What do we really believe? How do we live as creatures in time, juggling fate and history? How do we navigate the best and worst of human impact on the earth and one another? Transience touches everything and none of us escape without loss. And yet at the heart of it all, love remains, conjured here with poignant elegance and with thanks for all that has been. An expansive, tender collection....

Biographie:
Nick was born in Switzerland in 1953. Most of his childhood was spent in South East Kent and he went to boarding school from a young age. He qualified as a dentist and doctor at Guy's Hospital, where he met his wife. He worked in Nottingham as a consultant ENT surgeon and was appointed Special Professor in 1999. He has written 320 papers, 38 chapters and 7 books in the field of medicine. This is his first literary endeavour....

Sommaire:
Nick was born in Switzerland in 1953. Most of his childhood was spent in South East Kent and he went to boarding school from a young age. He qualified as a dentist and doctor at Guy's Hospital, where he met his wife. He worked in Nottingham as a consultant ENT surgeon and was appointed Special Professor in 1999. He has written 320 papers, 38 chapters and 7 books in the field of medicine. This is his first literary endeavour....