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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 A Season of Death : A Memoir
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'A thoughtful memoir on living well in the face of death

'Mark Raphael Baker was no stranger to death. Over seven years he had become a mourner three times over: for his first wife, for his brother and for his father. When diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, he began to reflect on their deaths, his probable death and on Death as, in the words of Ecclesiastes, a 'season' that produced a large and bitter harvest for the Baker family. Powerful and conflicting emotions assailed him, but their destructive power was always defeated by his love of his family and of life, which never deserted him even when his spirit was most weary. Over the short course of his illness, he came to realise that to love both truly, he must die as the most authentic version of himself he can achieve. It enabled him to die with humbling grace and dignity.' (Publication summary)

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Works about this Work

In the Face of Death Jacinta Halloran , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2024;

— Review of A Season of Death : A Memoir Mark Raphael Baker , 2024 single work autobiography

'Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness'

In the Face of Death Jacinta Halloran , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Inside Story , October 2024;

— Review of A Season of Death : A Memoir Mark Raphael Baker , 2024 single work autobiography

'Life’s binaries bleed into each other in a spirited memoir shadowed by a terminal illness'

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