NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year Deadly seriousmasterfully playful and surprisingly funny Nothing to Be Frightened Of is ariveting hig... » 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Best Book of the Year Deadly seriousmasterfully playful and surprisingly funny Nothing to Be Frightened Of is ariveting highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow thefinal diagnosis. A meditation on mortality as only Julian Barnes could writeit one that touches on faith and science and family as well as a rich array ofexemplary figures who over the centuries have confronted the same questions henow poses about the most basic fact of life its inevitable extinction. Anatheist at twenty an agnostic at sixty Barnes looks into the variousarguments for and against and with God and at his own bloodline which hasbecome following his parents death another realm of mystery. Nothing to BeFrightened Of reveals how we all might go about living with the inevitable. «