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Johnson, Marilyn The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, And the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries
HarperCollins 2006 0060758759 / 9780060758752 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Fine
A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. Stated First Edition. Number line: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. Price inside dustcover: $24.95. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. 244 pages. Illustrated. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. The New York Times comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead. Every day is new; every day is fraught with significance. I arrange my cup of tea, prop up my slippers. 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? I shake out the pages. Tell me the secret of a good life!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 directly to the obituary page. The Dead Beat is the story of how these stories get told. Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, surviving a mass gathering of obituarists, and making a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all, Marilyn Johnson leads us into the cult and culture behind the obituary page. The result is a rare combination of scrapbook and compelling read, a trip through recent history and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.
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