The Cocktail Cart

By: Edward Bear

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Paperback | 1 May 2007

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244 Pages

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20.32 x 12.7 x 1.3

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WINNER OF THE COLORADO INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS AWARD

This sweet and tender story about life-yes, life-in a hospice is told with gentle good humor and eye for the significant humanity in every human being. Author Edward Bear's now-sober narrator is ordered to do community service at the Hospice of St. Michael where he's put in charge of the cocktail cart and becomes the late afternoon drink dispenser for the patients there. With his great ear for dialogue, Bear draws out the meanings of the individual lives that his narrator now shares. This is a book that makes you laugh, brings a tear to your eye, and makes you think all at the same time. A wonderful read for all.

Industry Reviews

Eddy Gallagher goes from room to room at the hospice,
offering the residents a cocktail before dinner. And, like any
good bartender, he finds himself listening while pouring.
What he hears changes his life. It will change yours, too.
This is not a book about dying. This is a book about living.
—Fr. Bill Brock
A compelling story of a hospice volunteer who discovers
meaning and purpose in his own life among the terminally
ill patients he serves. The author offers comfort and reassurance
to the afflicted, their families and friends who
might someday have to face the hospice experience.
—R. J. Rademacher, M.D.
The author has taken the puzzle piece that is the spiritual
part of our everyday lives and fit it nicely into place with
the more obvious and accepted emotional and physical
dimensions. He’s made the extraordinary seem ordinary
and allowed the reader to realize the potential for more
awareness of self, others, and God.
—Dawn Obrecht, M.D.
I love this book-it’s about believing.
—Judith G. Dowling, Psy.D.
clinical psychologist

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