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050 00 $aBD431$b.L975 2020
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100 1 $aLynch, Thomas,$d1948-$eauthor.
240 10 $aEssays.$kSelections
245 14 $aThe depositions :$bnew and selected essays on being and ceasing to be /$cThomas Lynch ; foreword by Alan Ball.
246 30 $aEssays on being and ceasing to be
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Company,$c[2020]
264 4 $c©2020
300 $aix, 342 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 00 $gForeword by |rAlan Ball --$gfrom$tTHE UNDERTAKING :$tThe undertaking ;$tGladstone ;$tCrapper ;$tThe right hand of the Father ;$tThe golfatorium ;$tTract --$gfrom$tBODIES IN MOTION AND AT REST :$gIntroduction ;$tBodies in motion and at rest ;$tFish stories ;$tY2Kat ;$tThe way we are ;$tReno --$gfrom$tBOOKING PASSAGE :$gIntroduction-$tThe ethnography of everyday life ;$tThe brother ;$tThe same but different ;$tThe sisters Godhelpus --$gfrom$tTHE GOOD FUNERAL :$tHow we come to be the ones we are ;$tThe theory and practice of cremation --$tNEW ESSAYS :$gIntroit ;$tMiracles ;$tMoveable and steadfast feasts ;$tWhence & whither ;$tThe done thing.
520 $a"A wry and compassionate selection of essays reflecting on mortals and mortality, from the acclaimed author of The Undertaking. For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small- town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts. His life's work with the dead and the bereaved has informed four previous collections of nonfiction, each exploring identity and humanity with Lynch's signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions provides an essential selection from these masterful collections, as well as new essays in which the space between Lynch's hyphenated identities-as an Irish American, undertaker-poet-is narrowed by the deaths of poets, the funerals of friends, the loss of neighbors, intimate estrangements, and the slow demise of a beloved dog. Meanwhile, the press of the author's own mortality sharpens a curiosity about where we come from, where we go, and what it means. In The Depositions, Lynch continues to illuminate not only how we die, but also how we live"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLife.
650 0 $aDeath.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology)
650 0 $aLoss (Psychology)
650 0 $aMeaning (Philosophy)
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650 7 $aLife.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01198505
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700 1 $aBall, Alan,$d1957-$ewriter of foreword.
852 00 $bglx$hBD431$i.L975 2020