The Dead Beat
Lucky Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
Johnson, Marilyn
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world—so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0060758767
Dewey Decimal: 390
Library of Congress: oc2007066788
Book Publisher: Harpercollins
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 252
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