The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781324003984
ISBN-13 : 1324003987
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Book Synopsis The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be by : Thomas Lynch

Download or read book The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be written by Thomas Lynch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Alan Ball “Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection from Lynch’s four previous collections of nonfiction, along with new essays shaped by the press of the author’s own mortality.


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