The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries Paperback - 2007
by Marilyn Johnson
In wry and lucid prose, Johnson takes a mordantly funny look at the history and practice of "the ultimate human-interest story," the obituary.
First line
People have been slipping out of this world in occupational clusters, I've noticed, for years.
From the rear cover
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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- Title The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
- Author Marilyn Johnson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, NY USA
- Date 2007-02-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780060758769 / 0060758767
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.1 x 0.81 in (20.22 x 12.95 x 2.06 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress subjects Death - Social aspects - United States, Obituaries - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 070.449
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Citations
- New York Times, 03/18/2007, Page 24
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