Title: A Near Life Experience Author name: Phillip Blomberg ISBN: 978-0-615-76674-4 Publisher: FlipInk, Inc. Publication date: March 2013 according to publisher; book release party was April 21, 2013 Format: Paperback Description: By turns delightful and devastating, Phillip Blomberg’s memoir of growing up in Portland and his journey of recovery recounts childhood friends, siblings, clandestine familial violence, and a directionless adolescence torn by alcoholism and addiction. It would seem unlikely soil for the delicate roots of grace to find purchase, much less flourish, but miracles wind tightly through his narrative. For those with lives untouched by grief, it may offer little solace. For those who have ever lost a parent, child, friend, themselves, or hope to the dark seduction of any substance that promises to ease the ache of life, his stories invoke light to find the door, strength to move toward it, humor to open it, courage to walk through, and compassion to catch those who stumble crossing the threshold. There are funny stories about chemotherapy, navigating presidential politics at the age of fourteen, life as an unhappy expatriate in France, and the transformative power of friendship. Link to cover on a NON-BOOKSELLER site:http://www.nearlifebook.com/coverphot...
Author name: Phillip Blomberg
ISBN: 978-0-615-76674-4
Publisher: FlipInk, Inc.
Publication date: March 2013 according to publisher; book release party was April 21, 2013
Format: Paperback
Description: By turns delightful and devastating, Phillip Blomberg’s memoir of growing up in Portland and his journey of recovery recounts childhood friends, siblings, clandestine familial violence, and a directionless adolescence torn by alcoholism and addiction. It would seem unlikely soil for the delicate roots of grace to find purchase, much less flourish, but miracles wind tightly through his narrative. For those with lives untouched by grief, it may offer little solace. For those who have ever lost a parent, child, friend, themselves, or hope to the dark seduction of any substance that promises to ease the ache of life, his stories invoke light to find the door, strength to move toward it, humor to open it, courage to walk through, and compassion to catch those who stumble crossing the threshold. There are funny stories about chemotherapy, navigating presidential politics at the age of fourteen, life as an unhappy expatriate in France, and the transformative power of friendship.
Link to cover on a NON-BOOKSELLER site: http://www.nearlifebook.com/coverphot...