Letters from the Land of Cancer, Walter Wangerin Jr.
Letters from the Land of Cancer, Walter Wangerin Jr.
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Letters from the Land of Cancer

Author: Walter Wangerin Jr.

Narrator: Walter C. Kaiser Jr., Walter Wangerin Jr.

Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 02/02/2010


Synopsis

In this unabridged audio download of Letters from the Land of Cancer, award-winning writer Walter Wangerin Jr. offers his profound insights into the greatest challenge we face: confronting our own mortality.“Shortly after the cancer had been diagnosed I began writing letters to the members of my immediate family, to relatives and to lifelong friends. The following book will consist mostly of those letters. They will invite you into my most intimate dancing with the cancer, even as that partner and I have over the last two years swung each other around the tiled floors of ballrooms and bathrooms. Dizzy still, and day by day, I sat and wrote: This is what I’m feeling right now. This is what I think.…”From afternoon to afternoon of radiation, Wangerin wrote about confronting his mortality, about living with the messiness of undone tasks and bodily weakness. He wrote about the medical procedures he endured, the wild mood swings that unbalanced his days, and the fragilities and strengths of the relationships that surrounded him.The unabridged audio download of Letters from the Land of Cancer is made up of these writings. Cadenced within the letters are Wangerin’s eloquent meditations derived from his pastoral experiences with the faithful passage of death to life. Seldom has the great adventure of life and death been as beautifully presented as it is in this testimony to faith, love, and the shocking reality of hope.

About Walter Wangerin Jr.

Walter Wangerin Jr. is widely recognized as one of the most gifted writers writing today on the issues of faith and spirituality. Known for his bestselling The Book of the Dun Cow, Wangerin’s writing voice is immediately recognizable, and his fans number in the millions. The author of over forty books including The Book of God, Wangerin has won the National Book Award and the New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year Award. He lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jaci on February 27, 2021

Diagnosed with cancer, Wangerin writes letters for family and friends, describing the process of combating and living with cancer. His experiences cover two years and touch on every topic that impending death brings to the forefront. p.19: congregation of the wounded p.22: I just pay attention. "Time......more

Goodreads review by Carol Bakker on December 23, 2016

I found this book at my public library while looking for another title. It is a memoir written (2006-2008) in letters to friends and family. It begins with the diagnosis of lung cancer, concludes at a period of remission. I read this at the end of 2016. Before I had read two chapters, I had to know......more

Goodreads review by Nick on January 10, 2019

I got the chance to see Wangerin, to literally sit at his feet in a packed room at the 2018 Festival of Faith and Writing. He was skeletal, with oxygen, and he read from his powerful recent poetry. This book is from the initial experience of cancer, more than ten years earlier. It is powerful, incre......more

Goodreads review by Mary on February 27, 2022

Wonderful story. I read this book and made me heartfelt.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on January 09, 2020

Very raw and transparent letters of someone facing possible death from cancer. It was quite hard to read at parts and the ending was very quick with no resolution.......more