An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given

基本信息出版社:Hyperion (2007年12月18日)精装:96页正文语种:英语ISBN:1401322573条形码:9781401322571商品尺寸:18.8 x 14 x 1.4 cm商品重量:191 g品牌:HyperionASIN:1401322573商品描述内容简介Richard Carlson's sudden, tragic death in 2006 left his millions of fans reeling and his wife and partner Kristine grief stricken. This work features one of the many of Richard's letters to his beloved wife, and her heartfelt response编辑推荐From Publishers Weekly

On their 18th wedding anniversary, in 2003, Richard Carlson (author of the bestsellingDon't Sweat the Small Stuff) presented his wife, Kristine, with a short manuscript called An Hour to Live. He imagines he has an hour to live and poses questions originally asked by spiritual guide and author Stephen Levine: whom would you call? what would you say? and why are you waiting? Uncannily, the text foreshadowed Carlson's death three years later, at age 45, of a pulmonary embolism. Though he had no chance to make that last phone call, his wife (and the reader) already knows his feelings for her and their children. We also know what was important to him, which boils down to the old chestnut: no one, on their deathbed, ever wishes they'd spent more time at the office. Included in the book is Kristine's tribute to Richard, called An Hour to Love. Both pieces (only 50 pages and padded with Richard's favorite poem and blank pages for the reader's own answer to the key question) are heartfelt—and oddly unengaging. They tell the reader how wonderful the Carlsons' marriage was, but don't show why. We are left with a lovely ideal—too ideal for readers to relate to.(Jan. 15)

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Review

"An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love is a genuine love story and a moving reminder that in the midst of our busyness, our lives revolve around a few irreplaceable human beings. Reading these poignant pages made me stop in my tracks, hug my husband, call my daughter, and pet my cat." --Victoria Moran, author ofCreating a Charmed Life

"Richard and Kristine Carlson write with such vulnerability, clarity, compassion, and depth that it touched every fiber of our hearts. This awesome book will ignite the spiritual core in all that are fortunate enough to choose to read and bathe in it." --Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D., and Diane V. Cirincione, Ph.D., authors ofFinding Our Way Home

"When our true love departs, there is an absence left in their wake not unlike the circles expanding from a mountain pulled from the sea. But love never dies, and can even grow on either side of the river." --Stephen Levine, author ofA Year to Live

"Richard Carlson, so beloved to many of us, writes to his own true love from a place somewhere between life and death. The love with which he writes to her, and the love with which she answers, provide a teaching for all of us: on life, on death, and on the existence of a spirit that transcends them both." --Marianne Williamson, author ofA Return to LoveandThe Age of Miracles

"Together Richard and Kris Carlson have given us the gift of eternal love, the secret to sharing it and keeping it alive." --Joe Bailey, author ofFearproof Your LifeandSlowing Down to the Speed of Life(co-author, Richard Carlson)--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.