Bodies in motion and at rest
essays
by Thomas Lynch
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"Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live." "The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and times. Lynch tenders life and time - sextons, muckrakers, clergy, caskets, condoms, loved poems, a hated cat, the mall, the Main Street. In an age that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech, or pop-psyche terms, these essays speak to the existentials: between human being and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest."--BOOK JACKET.
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest
May 3, 2001, Vintage
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
June 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
June 2001, W. W. Norton & Company
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Bodies in motion and at rest: essays
2000, W.W. Norton
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
June 2000, W. W. Norton & Company
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"So I'm over at the Hortons' with my stretcher and mini-van and my able apprentice, young Matt Sheffler, because they found old George, the cemetery sexton, dead in bed this Thursday morning in ordinary time."
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"Thomas Lynch, called a cross between Garrison Keillor and William Butler Yeats, reminds us not only of how we die but also of how we live.".
"The essays assembled here explore the human condition at the intersection of millennia, beleaguered by choices and changes, encumbered by mergers and acquisitions, numbed by math and technologies, in search of the meaning of life and time, our lives and times. Lynch tenders life and time - sextons, muckrakers, clergy, caskets, condoms, loved poems, a hated cat, the mall, the Main Street.
In an age that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech, or pop-psyche terms, these essays speak to the existentials: between human being and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest."--BOOK JACKET.
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