The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
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Book Overview A light-hearted look at the history and practice of "the ultimate human-interest story," the obituary."What a wonderful surprise--a charm...
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.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 272 | Language: English | Publisher: PERENNIAL | ISBN: 0060758767
FormatPaperback
Pages272
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0060758767
EAN9780060758769
PublisherPERENNIAL
Publication Date1970-01-01
EditionAnnotated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.6 Pounds
Length7.96 Inches
Width5.1 Inches
Height0.81 Inches
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