Seize the Day

Seize the Day
ISBN-10
1476758727
ISBN-13
9781476758725
Series
Seize the Day
Category
Fiction
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2015-12-08
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Curtis Bunn

Description

When a terminally ill man is at a crossroads, one choice will make him feel more alive than ever. Calvin Jones has finally gotten his life on the right course. At forty-five, he has escaped a toxic long-term relationship with the mother of his only child, and he loves his job as a high school English teacher in Washington, DC. Life is good. But then life turns horribly bad. A routine checkup reveals a cancerous spot on his pancreas. The oncologist offers him chemotherapy in the hope that it will extend his life, but Calvin declines...and decides to live the best he can while he can. Seize the Day is more than the story of Calvin Jones’s decision to pass on cancer treatment. It is the inspiring story of a man choosing not to wait on death and, instead, to live out his life with courage, hope, and resilience. What happens next is extraordinary.

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