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Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

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A meditative assessment of death and bereavement, selected as a National Book Award finalist and an American Book Award winner, offers insight into the secretive aspects of mortality within communities and individuals while making distinctions between physical and psychological death. Reprint.
 

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The American Way of Writing About Death

Date of Review:  Aug 26, 2001
The Bottom Line: Not entirely for the squeamish, nor for the thrill-seeker, Lynch writes in the persona of the undertaker -- calm, serene, helpful, dignified.
Review: Thomas Lynch is a quintessentially American hyphenate -- a person whose life work cannot be summed up in a single word. As Jennifer Lopez is a singer hyphen actor, Mr. Lynch is a poet hyphen undertaker.

He admits right off the bat that all...
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Combines good writing with (mostly)...
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Themes sort of jump around on you.
 

The Title is the Best Part

Date of Review:  Dec 20, 1999
Review: I bought this book because it looked so fascinating. The inside scoop on what undertaking is all about! Gross stories! Or ones with human interest. What the heck DOES an undertaker do with a corpse. I was sadly disappointed. Instead of the "behind...
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Authors Thomas Lynch
Fiction Genre Biography & Autobiography
Fiction Subgenre Unknown
Awards 1998 American Book Award

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  Vanderbilt, Tom, Nation: "We might imagine undertakers to resemble their product--cold, reserved, and gravely dignified--but 'The Undertaking' brims with humanity, irreverence and invigorating candor....For Lynch, every day is a matter of life and death, to be greeted with the tradesman's workaday pragmatism and the poet's capacity for transcendence, and it does not seem strange at all for me to say that this undertaker's memoir, rife with death, is one of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc (June 22, 2009)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.38 lbs.
ISBN: 9780393334876
 

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