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

Author: Jonathan Tropper

Narrator: John Shea

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 08/21/2012


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

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 the television drama Banshee, as well as a screenwriter who adapted This Is Where I Leave You into a major motion picture.John Shea's many film appearances include Stealing Home and Missing. He is the recipient of the Obie Award for his performance in The Dining Room, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his work in American Days.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on November 13, 2023

Divorced over a decade and a half ago, renting an apartment as do several other divorcees in the same complex; discarded by his daughter and his brother's family and one-time on the verge of becoming a rock star but now playing in wedding bands, Silver is diagnosed with an operable deadly condition,......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 07, 2023

I LOVED "This is Where I Leave You". I guess I expected this book to be on the same level of humor. I laughed out loud for that book. This book is funny, in a very tragic way. It starts off a little slow, but that could be because I had expectations. The middle to the end is fantastic. I love his fr......more

Goodreads review by switterbug (Betsey) on August 02, 2012

Silver is forty-four, a former drummer with the one-hit-wonder band, The Bent Daisies. After the front man/vocalist, Pat Mcreedy, left them and went solo, they tanked, dried up, and disbanded. Now Silver is a notch above broke, and his ex-wife, Denise is about to get married to the doctor who wants......more

Goodreads review by Carol on July 20, 2014

***3.5 Stars*** Always amusing...sometimes laugh out loud funny. As I listened, I imagined it as a great comedy series and I marveled at the author’s very clever wit.......more

Goodreads review by Angela on August 14, 2013

When you just don't care whether the main character in a novel lives or dies, well, it's probably a good sign that you won't be recommending this book to others. I wasn't offended by the characters in One Last Thing; I was annoyed by them. Or perhaps even worse: I was bored by them. The protagonist,......more


Quotes

"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