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In May 2005, Eugene O’Kelly — chairman and CEO of KPMG, at the absolute peak of his career — was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and given three months to live. Chasing Daylight is the memoir he wrote in the three and a half months between that diagnosis and his death that September, at the age of 53.
This is not a book about dying so much as a book about living: about how a man who had measured his life in billable hours learned to measure it in ‘perfect moments’ — a walk with his wife, an evening with old friends, the deliberate unwinding of a lifetime of relationships. Written with Andrew Postman, O’Kelly’s account is clear-eyed, unsentimental, and quietly devastating.
Published posthumously in 2006, it remains one of the most honest memoirs about facing the end — and a challenge to the rest of us to examine how we spend our days while we still have them.
In May 2005, Eugene O’Kelly — chairman and CEO of KPMG, at the absolute peak of his career — was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer and given three months to live. Chasing Daylight is the memoir he wrote in the three and a half months between that diagnosis and his death that September, at the age of 53.
This is not a book about dying so much as a book about living: about how a man who had measured his life in billable hours learned to measure it in ‘perfect moments’ — a walk with his wife, an evening with old friends, the deliberate unwinding of a lifetime of relationships. Written with Andrew Postman, O’Kelly’s account is clear-eyed, unsentimental, and quietly devastating.
Published posthumously in 2006, it remains one of the most honest memoirs about facing the end — and a challenge to the rest of us to examine how we spend our days while we still have them.
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