It's Only Temporary: The Good News and Bad News Of Being Alive by Evan Handler

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  • Pub. Date: May 2008
  • 240pp
  • Sales Rank: 184,861
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    • Pub. Date: May 2008
    • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
    • Format: Hardcover, 240pp
    • Sales Rank: 184,861

    Synopsis

    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 Duchovny

    Change 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)

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    Biography

    Evan Handler is an actor best known as Harry Goldenblatt from HBO's Sex and the City and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors. Handler currently co-stars in Showtime's hit series Californication co-starring David Duchovny. His past acting credits include Lost, The West Wing, Ransom, and Taps. Handler also has written for Elle, Mirabella, O, the Oprah Magazine, USA Weekend, and The New Yorker.

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    June 17, 2008: These essays are absolutely wonderful. They are so heartbreaking and funny, smart and witty. I loved it and I cannot wait for the next round!