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A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.

Actor and author Evan Handler's new book, It's Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has ...

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Overview

A provocative, funny, and whip- smart memoir of how one man learned to find joy in his own life after years of hand-to-hand combat with death.

Actor and author Evan Handler's new book, It's Only Temporary, is both a deeply personal memoir and a series of meditations on life, love, faith, gratitude, and mortality. In closely examining his own triumphs, mistakes, and less-than-ideal relationships since his miraculous recovery from a supposedly incurable leukemia more than twenty years ago, Handler zeroes in on the most profound question facing every human being: How can a person live well with the knowledge that time is limited? In doing so, Handler has created a poignant and wildly funny rumination on the ironies of human existence.

Structured as a collection of incisive and probing autobiographical stories , It's Only Temporary is a startlingly candid portrait of one man's struggle to find love and happiness within a life he knows he's lucky just to have. By turns hilarious and heart-wrenching, blunt and shocking, Handler's defiantly unconventional memoir ultimately succeeds as both a stirring love story and a classic coming-of-age tale. It's Only Temporary celebrates the transformation from boy to man—even if it took Handler more than forty years to get there.

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Evan Handler has described himself as an actor, author, screenwriter, journalist, leukemia survivor, healthcare educator, activist, reformer, inspirational/motivational public speaker. This collection of essays is the second book by the Broadway veteran and Sex and the City star. It's Only Temporary brings us up to date on Handler's life since Time on Fire. Like its 1996 predecessor, this autobiographical book touches on his battles with cancer as well as his idiosyncratic take on lighter topics such as acting, dating, and psychotherapy.
Amy Tan
In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time. (Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter, and The Kitchen God's Wife)
From The Critics
Change is good - that's the credo Evan Handler reinvigorates with the hard won wisdom of this hard luck story. Handler's prose style is disarmingly funny and smoothly conversational. He writes like a guy who's just happy to be here, and a little pissed off at you if you're not. As he has worked hard to shape himself into a good actor, life has shaped him into a good man. The cover photo is worth the price alone. (David Duchovny, actor, director, screenwriter)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594489952
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/1/2008
  • Pages: 240
  • Product dimensions: 6.32 (w) x 9.32 (h) x 0.98 (d)

Meet the Author

Evan Handler is an actor best known as Harry Goldenblatt from HBO's Sex and the City and the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors. Handler currently co-stars in Showtime's hit series Californication co-starring David Duchovny. His past acting credits include Lost, The West Wing, Ransom, and Taps. Handler also has written for Elle, Mirabella, O, the Oprah Magazine, USA Weekend, and The New Yorker.

Table of Contents


Preface     xi
"Separation" Anxiety     1
Remember Richard Burr     16
The Sickest First Kiss     23
I Don't Know     32
The Biggest Mistake I Ever Made, or "I Don't"     40
Menace to Society     47
My Life Story     55
My Clock Ticks, Too     82
Tiffany '99, Sotheby's '01     85
The Two-Month Second Date     102
Medicine Man     118
Thanksgiving Days     134
Italian Dreaming     145
How Did You Two Meet?     154
A Little Fame and Lots of Women     169
Renovations and Terminations     179
You Don't Know Where You Are, Until You're Somewhere Else     196
On Death and Dying     202
The End Is the Beginning (of the Beginning of the End)     212
Acknowledgments     221
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    I LOVED this book!

    These essays are absolutely wonderful. They are so heartbreaking and funny, smart and witty. I loved it and I cannot wait for the next round!

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