Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground

by Matson, Tim

First Edition

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Book Description

White River Jct, Vermont, U.S.A.: Chelsea Green Pub Co, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Our narrator, Tim Matson, assaulted by middle-aged existential doubt and morbid preoccupation, sets out to confront the demons of death and the denizens of the funeral trade. His oddysey begins when he stares down a photograph of Ginseng Willard, a flinty old Vermonter who built his own coffin from a piano case, then used it as a bed for the rest of his natural days. Matson ups the ante by deciding to build a coffin. He heads out on the road to learn how to go about it. Along the way he meets an unforgettable cabal of characters who populate the funeral underground - among them the Undertaker and the Crusader, the Anatomist and the Astrologer, the Organist and the Gravedigger. Sometimes you'll feel like Buster Keaton has slipped through the back door into a funeral parlor in backcountry Vermont. Other times you'll be at the wheel, with Hitchcock and Sartre riding shotgun. This book offers thrills, chills, and laughter, but also a face-to-face encounter with some of life's Big Questions. 147 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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