Full name: Gathering Evidence: A Memoir

Author: Thomas Bernhard Year: 1986 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Memoirs, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780099442530 9781400077625 0099442531 1400077621

Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, he observed with unflinching acuity protracted suffering and death. From the age of 21, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament - his witness, the quintessence of his life and knowledge - and where this account of his life ends, his art begins. Similar books: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Educated by Tara Westover Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls The Story of My Life by Helen Keller Happy, Happy, Happy by Phil Robertson Etched in Sand by Regina Calcaterra Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder Gifted Hands by Ben Carson The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby Howard Stern Comes Again by Howard Stern Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman Lucky by Alice Sebold A Million Little Pieces by James Frey The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper Grateful American by Gary Sinise An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff