Climbing the Mountain
My Search for Meaning

by Kirk Douglas (signed)

Easton Press First Edition

Description: Leatherbound hardback book published by Easton Press in 1997. Bound in top grade gray leather with 22kt gold lettering and cover artwork. Hubbed spine, acid neutral paper with page edges gilded, satin moire endpapers, and a satin ribbon book mark sewn in. Collectors Note, certificate of authenticity, and unused publisher supplied bookplate laid in (not attached). Issued by Easton Press signed by the author on the limitation page without inscription or personalization. Book number 1,092 of 1,250 copies produced by Easton Press as part of the Signed First Editions series.

Synopsis: The second installment (after "The Ragman's Son") of the autobiography of Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas. In this volume, Douglas describes the search for religious meaning that he embarked on after a near-fatal helicopter accident in 1991.

Publisher's Note: With the simple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, a number one international bestseller, Kirk Douglas now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke.

On February 13, 1991, at the age of seventy-four, Kirk Douglas, star of such major motion-picture classics as Champion, Spartacus, and Paths of Glory, was in a helicopter crash, in which two people died and he himself sustained severe back injuries. As he lay in the hospital recovering, he kept wondering: Why had two younger men died while he, who had already lived his life fully, survived?

The question drove this son of a Russian-Jewish ragman to a search for his roots and on a long journey of self-discovery -- a quest not only for the meaning of life and his own relationship with God, but for his own identity as a Jew. Through the study of the Bible, Kirk Douglas found a new spirituality and purpose. His newfound faith deeply enriched his relationship with his own children and taught him -- a man who had always been famously demanding and impatient -- to listen to others and, above all, to hear his own inner voice.

Told with warmth, wit, much humor, and deep passion, Climbing the Mountain is inspirational in the very best sense of the word.

Industry Reviews: "By turns feisty, sentimental, grouchy, funny, boastful, and touchingly vulnerable, the voice throughout is unmistakably that of Kirk Douglas." Publishers Weekly

Condition: Binding - fine, a few slight flaws to the page edge gilding, otherwise like new. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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