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The dead beat : lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries
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The dead beat : lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries

著者: Marilyn Johnson
出版商: New York : HarperCollins, ©2006.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语 : 1st ed查看所有的版本和格式
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Obituaries are history as it is happening. Whose time am I living in? Was he a success or a failure, lucky or doomed, older than I am or younger? Did she know how to live? Where else can you 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? No wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and go  再读一些...
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所有的著者/提供者: Marilyn Johnson
ISBN: 0060758759 9780060758752
OCLC号码: 61704809
描述: 244 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
内容: 1. I walk the dead beat --
2. A wake of obituarists --
3. Name that bit --
4. The mighty and the fallen of New York : --
The Irish sports pages --
The franchise --
Portraits of grief --
Goodbye! --
Attention must be paid --
5. Now you know --
6. Ordinary Joe --
7. The egalitarians --
8. Tributes --
9. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse : --
The obituary capital --
Boiled in oil, and other --
Terrible fates in the Daily Telegraph --
A few words about the code --
Following the Guardian into the mist --
An Independent bent --
Lives of the Times --
10. Googling death --
11. The obit writer's obit.
责任: Marilyn Johnson.
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In wry and lucid prose, Johnson takes a mordantly funny look at the history and practice of "the ultimate human-interest story," the obituary.  再读一些...

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"A charming, lyrical book about the men and women who write obituaries... sly, droll, and completely winning."--David Halberstam

 
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