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Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Other Four-Letter Words Tapa dura – 12 Septiembre 2017
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For the past decade, TV fans of all stripes have counted upon Michael Ausiello’s insider knowledge to get the scoop on their favorite shows and stars. From his time at Soaps in Depth to his influential stints at TV Guide and Entertainment Weekly to his current role as founder and editor-in-chief of the wildly popular website TVLine.com, Michael has established himself as the go-to expert when it comes to our most popular form of entertainment.
What many of his fans don’t know, however, is that while his professional life was in full swing, Michael had to endure the greatest of personal tragedies: his husband, Kit Cowan, was diagnosed with a rare and very aggressive form of neuroendocrine cancer. Over the course of eleven months, Kit and Michael did their best to combat the deadly disease, but Kit succumbed to his illness in February 2015.
In this heartbreaking and darkly hilarious memoir, Michael tells the story of his harrowing and challenging last year with Kit while revisiting the thirteen years that preceded it, and how the undeniably powerful bond between him and Kit carried them through all manner of difficulty—always with laughter front and center in their relationship. Instead of a tale of sadness and loss, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies is an unforgettable, inspiring, and beautiful testament to the resilience and strength of true love.
- Número de páginas320 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- EditorialAtria Books
- Fecha de publicación12 Septiembre 2017
- Dimensiones6 x 1 x 9 pulgadas
- ISBN-101501134965
- ISBN-13978-1501134968
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“Engrossing, poignant, tragic, and hilarious – I couldn't put it down. Read this book. You are welcome.” -- Jenny Lawson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Furiously Happy
“Sexy and sweet, charming and funny, Michael Ausiello somehow manages to turn a story of loss into a hopeful tale that shines with warmth and wit.” -- Lauren Graham, star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood and New York Times bestselling author of Someday, Someday, Maybe and Talking as Fast as I Can
"Like some of Michael's favorite TV shows, his book is heartfelt, smart, funny, insightful, and packs an enormous emotional punch. I can't recommend it more." -- Greg Berlanti, writer-director-producer, The Flash, Arrow, Everwood, Dawson's Creek, Brothers & Sisters
"Tender, profoundly poignant, and cleverly written with equal parts wit and integrity, the book is grounded in the realities of modern relationships and the grim fate of mortality. A heartbreaking memoir infused with dark humor and composed with true love." ― Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The ending is given away in the title, but the experience of reading it is something wholly unexpected . . . . a humorous, enlightening, and sometimes even sensual look at gay life in New York City…and a swoon-inducing romance that pulls no punches about how just how much work goes into staying with the love of your life until the end of his life . . . .The beauty of the book, however, is that the details don’t have to mirror a reader’s own life so eerily for the story to feel so personally powerful.” -- Kevin Fallon ― The Daily Beast
"Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies is a haunting and profoundly sad story, but it's brightened by witty writing, comedic interludes and the two charismatic, endearing and appealing heroes at the book's center." ― Shelf Awareness
"What Ausiello has done is made certain that Cowan’s one special life will never be forgotten. The hero died, but the spirit lives." ― Lambda Literary Review
"A poignant memoir." ― Entertainment Weekly
"As hate threatens to strangle our country, take a look at what love looks like." ― Newark Star-Ledger
“Spoiler Alert is both tender and raw. It almost feels inappropriate to be invited into such a deeply personal chapter of someone’s life. It’s a story about love and loss, joy and heartbreak. And in the midst of personal turmoil, we learn that bravery comes in many forms." ― The Washington Post
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- Editorial : Atria Books; Illustrated edición (12 Septiembre 2017)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tapa dura : 320 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 1501134965
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501134968
- Dimensiones : 6 x 1 x 9 pulgadas
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I miss Kit too & would so love to give you a hug Michael! I've been married a very long time & have no idea how I will cope when my husband passes away.
Thank you for letting me have the privilege of reading about you both 💝
My sense is there is no dark intent here, rather just a lack of awareness. However, as a proud ally of LGBTQ causes, I would never use gay slurs for sport. Therefore, respectfully, I would like to ask Mr. Aussiello to refrain from using such terms as casual insults.
Small thing but quite noticeable.
….otherwise, a very touching tale of loss.
Michael Ausiello's book is the story of his life with Christopher ("Kit") Cowan and Kit's death at the age of 42 from a rare form of colorectal cancer. Michael takes the reader through his meeting Kit and their thirteen years together. The two married when Kit was diagnosed with cancer, roughly a year before his death. Their relationship was very much the work-in-progress most of our relationships are, straight or gay, and Michael Ausiello seems to be as honest as he can be of the ups and downs of any marital relationship. But Kit's world was not only his husband Michael. An only child, he was very close to his parents, and he was extremely well-respected in the New York design world.
I thought that Ausiello's book was very well written but also a bit too long. An editor might have taken a few pages, a few scenes, a few reminisces out and the story would have been complete. I did like the last part, which looked at a possible future for the two if Kit had lived.
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It made me laugh, cry, and think about what is real and what is important in life.
I have not seen the movie based on this book. Maybe one day I'll watch it, not sure.
If you like romantic fiction and 'happy ever after'; well, this may not be the book for you.
If you like a story about real, flawed people with genuine love, jealousy, anger, loss, and even hope.. and are willing to risk crying (because you will cry), over a couple who deserved so much better. Then buy this book.
If you watched the movie, buy this book and listen to the words of the man that lived the story.. I have no doubt it will enhance whatever the movie did.
I love this book; it reminded me about what really is important.
Ausiello is never manipulative, however: being this open about his life and the 13 years he spent with his partner (latterly husband) Kit before his untimely death makes that impossible. While crafting the story cleverly, he never shies away from telling it like it is, giving events an undeniable raw edge that is both challenging and gratifying. That he does so with his heart on his sleeve, never trading on mawkishness, but giving us everything, warts and all, is to his credit. And also what makes it so sad and so life-affirming simultaneously.
This is only the second book in my life I've read with tears in my eyes, and not just because I identify so much with the author (having lost a loved one to cancer myself, and also being a gay man of the same age in a similar relationship and with similar hang-ups). It simply touches the heart, and I defy any reader not to be affected by it. From its quieter domestic moments to its more confrontational scenes, through to its heartbreaking but beautiful and unexpectedly hopeful final chapters in the wake of Kit's death and flash-forward coda of a life never lived, it is as transformative an experience for the reader as it clearly was for those involved.
Und was soll ich sagen...
Michael war schon immer einer meiner Lieblings-TV-Journalisten, aber beim Lesen dieses Buches stieg mein Respekt für diesen Mann um gefühlte 200%. Ich habe abwechselnd gelacht und geweint, ergriffen von der nackten Ehrlichkeit, mit der Michael seine Beziehung, die guten sowie die schlechten Momente, beschreibt. Die Leidenschaft, mit der dieses Paar alles dafür gab, die Beziehung am Leben zu halten. Und dann macht das Schicksal dem Ganzen einen Strich durch die Rechnung.
Michael nimmt kein Blatt vor den Mund. Knallhart beschreibt er die Unprofessionalität der Ärzte und des medizinischen Personals.
Den Tod von Kit beim Lesen hautnah mitzuerleben hat mir eine kalte Gänsehaut bereitet.
Dieses Buch ist jeden Cent wert.