Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

Thomas Lynch
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Publisher Description

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year


Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live.

Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2001
June 17
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
192
Pages
PUBLISHER
W. W. Norton & Company
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
3.9
MB

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