This isn't going to end well the true story of a man I thought I knew
A profoundly moving, large-hearted, genre-bending memoir from the bestselling author of Big Fish. If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For Daniel Wallace, that was his longtime friend and brother-in-law, William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina :
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
2023.
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| Summary: | A profoundly moving, large-hearted, genre-bending memoir from the bestselling author of Big Fish. If we're lucky, we all encounter at least one person whose life elevates and inspires our own. For Daniel Wallace, that was his longtime friend and brother-in-law, William Nealy. Seemingly perfect, impossibly cool, William was James Dean, Clint Eastwood, and MacGyver all rolled into an acclaimed outdoorsman, a famous cartoonist, an accomplished author, a master of all he undertook. William was the ideal that Daniel sought to emulate, and the person who gave him the courage to become a writer. But when William took his own life at age forty eight, Daniel's heartbreak led him to commit a grievous act of his own, a betrayal that took him down a path into the tortured recesses of William's past. Eventually a new picture emerged of a man with too many secrets and too much shame to bear. With his first memoir, acclaimed writer Daniel Wallace delivers a stunning book that is as innovative and emotionally resonant as his novels. Part love story, part true crime, part a desperate search for the self, This Isn't Going to End Well tells an intimate and moving story of what happens when we realize our heroes are human. |
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| Physical Description: | 258 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781643752105 1643752103 |
| Author Notes: | Wallace currently is a professor and lecturer in the English Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (Bowker Author Biography) |
