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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
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Johnson, Marilyn
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From the Book - First edition.
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.
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Family & Relationships
History and criticism
Language Studies
Obituaries
Obituaries -- History and criticism
Social Science
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Johnson, Marilyn
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9780060758752
9780061850363
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