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Johnson Marilyn
Johnson Marilyn - The Dead Beat Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries - Paperback
Johnson Marilyn - The Dead Beat Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries - Paperback
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Description: A light - hearted look at the history and practice of the ultimate human - interest story the obituary. What a wonderful surprise a charming lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries. The Dead Beat is sly droll and completely winning. David Halberstam Where can readers celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy the genius behind Sea Monkeys the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? The obituary page of course. Enthralled by these fascinating former lives Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the little known world of the obituary page to find out what made it so compelling. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying Internet chat rooms surviving a mass gathering of obituarists and making the pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all she leads us into the cult and culture behind this fascinating segment of our daily news.
Title: The Dead Beat Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries
Author(s): Johnson Marilyn
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060758769
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2007
Description: A light - hearted look at the history and practice of the ultimate human - interest story the obituary. What a wonderful surprise a charming lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries. The Dead Beat is sly droll and completely winning. David Halberstam Where can readers celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy the genius behind Sea Monkeys the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? The obituary page of course. Enthralled by these fascinating former lives Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the little known world of the obituary page to find out what made it so compelling. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying Internet chat rooms surviving a mass gathering of obituarists and making the pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all she leads us into the cult and culture behind this fascinating segment of our daily news.
Title: The Dead Beat Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs And The Perverse Pleasures Of Obituaries
Author(s): Johnson Marilyn
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060758769
Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/1/2007