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Bits of Me Are Falling Apart, William Leith

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Channel: Bloomsbury Publishing · 2008 · People & Blogs

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William Leith on latest book Bits of Me Are Falling Apart published by Bloomsbury, follow up to The Hungry Years.

One morning in August 2007, William Leith wakes up and realises that something is wrong. He is not in a bed, but on an old mattress on the floor. He is not in a house. He is in his office. He is alone. He no longer lives with his little boy and the mother of his little boy. Mentally, he is at the end of his tether. Physically, he is fraying at the edges. Bits of him are falling apart.
But then again, so is everything else -- the economy, the environment, the very fabric of society.
With his trademark darkly humorous mix of personal story and social commentary, Leith attempts to answer the question: is everything really falling apart? Or is it just him? He examines the ageing process in humans, and in everything else as well, from the universe to the banking system. And he comes to realise that, even if he can't solve the problems of the world, at least he has a thorough understanding of failure.

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