The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
by:
Thomas Lynch (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009AM2ORQ
Publish date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Book Club,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Poetry,
Death
Beautifully, poetically written. An important contribution to the discussion of death (which is not addressed enough in this country). I was most fond of Lynch's personal take on mortuary science: for example, how being an undertaker caused his father to see danger in every activity his kids enga...
Richard Bernstein said that, "Mr. Lynch emerges as a cross between Garrison Keillor and one of the Irish poets." This seems like a good description to me, though my experience with both is fairly limited. Lynch puts his poetry skills to good use, turning phrases, intertextualizing, crafting and coin...
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