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One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
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One Last Thing Before I Go

A Novel

A Novel

By Jonathan Tropper

By Jonathan Tropper

By Jonathan Tropper

By Jonathan Tropper

By Jonathan Tropper
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Paperback $16.00

May 28, 2013 | 336 Pages

Ebook $8.99

Aug 21, 2012 | 336 Pages

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Aug 21, 2012 | 499 Minutes

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    About One Last Thing Before I Go

    The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy’s struggle to reconnect.

    “Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down.

    So when Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to spend what time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment—even if that moment isn’t going to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving.

    About One Last Thing Before I Go

    The bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You returns with a hilarious and heart-rending tale about one familiy’s struggle to reconnect.

    “Mistakes have been made.” Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hit wonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down.

    So when Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to spend what time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment—even if that moment isn’t going to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether or not his own life is worth saving.

    About One Last Thing Before I Go

    Following the New York Times bestseller This Is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper’s latest novel is a moving, funny look at one broken family’s attempt to reconnect—without destroying each other in the process.
    Silver has begun to accept that life isn’t going to turn out as he expected. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy Silver can’t quite bring himself to hate. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter Casey has just confided in him that she’s pregnant—because he’s the one she cares least about letting down. With the wedding looming and Casey in crisis, this broken family struggles, bonds, and comes together only to risk damaging each other even more. Lives begin anew, change radically, or in Silver’s case—as he discovers that he could die at any moment without an operation he refuses to have—may be about to end in an instant.

    One Last Thing Before I Go demonstrates yet again Tropper’s deft touch with the darkest of materials and his ability to make readers laugh out loud in one paragraph and move them to tears in the next.

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    About Jonathan Tropper

    Jonathan Tropper is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including Everything Changes, This Is Where I Leave You, and One Last Thing Before I Go. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Tropper is the cocreator and executive producer of… More about Jonathan Tropper

    About Jonathan Tropper

    Jonathan Tropper is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including Everything Changes, This Is Where I Leave You, and One Last Thing Before I Go. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Tropper is the cocreator and executive producer of… More about Jonathan Tropper

    About Jonathan Tropper

    Jonathan Tropper is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including Everything Changes, This Is Where I Leave You, and One Last Thing Before I Go. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Tropper is the cocreator and executive producer of… More about Jonathan Tropper

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Dutton
    May 28, 2013 | 336 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780142196816

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $8.99
    Published by Dutton
    Aug 21, 2012 | 336 Pages | ISBN 9781101593578

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Aug 21, 2012 | 499 Minutes | ISBN 9781101579350

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    Praise

    "Tropper’s characters are likably zany and fallible, and perhaps more important, funny. One Last Thing Before I Go is a poignant story about facing death and celebrating life, even when things seem well beyond repair." –Newsweek/The Daily Beast on One Last Thing Before I Go

    "The richly talented Tropper (This Is Where I Leave You) has created an acerbic, middle-aged lost soul who will ultimately illuminate the reasons we stick around on this lopsided planet despite significant temptation to let it go. Readers will love Silver and want to throttle him in equal measure. Eminently quotable, hilariously funny, and emotionally draining, this arresting tour de force will entertain well after the book is done."  –Library Journal (starred review) on One Last Thing Before I Go

    “…a bristling, witty tale of woe that’ll make you appreciate whatever good things, no matter how few, have come your way.” –Entertainment Weekly on One Last Thing Before I Go

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