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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
The Dead Beat Lost Souls Lucky Stiffs and the perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
Author: Marilyn Johnson
...the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead...[a survey] of the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms...and the [London] most caustic and literate obits of all...a journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.
ISBN: 63831
Pages: 252
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Readnmachine avatar reviewed The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the perverse Pleasures of Obituaries on + 1472 more book reviews
Delightful, quirky review of the art of the obituary and the journalists who create them.
reviewed The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the perverse Pleasures of Obituaries on + 5 more book reviews
Introduction gets you interested and exciting, but soon the writing style gets tedious. You will lose interest about 3/4 of the way through, but worth the time to get to the end, if only to say you read it all.
DaisyaDay avatar reviewed The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the perverse Pleasures of Obituaries on + 10 more book reviews
Really great look into the world of obit writing. It's a bigger world then you might think!


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