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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality Paperback - 2001

by Thomas Lynch

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Masterful essays that illuminate not only how people die but also how they live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised "The Undertaking", continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts".

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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."

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So I'm over at the Hortons' with my stretcher and mini-van and my able apprentice, young Matt Sheffler, because they found old George, the cemetery sexton, dead in bed this Thursday morning in ordinary time.

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  • Title Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
  • Author Thomas Lynch
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-06-17
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780393321647 / 0393321649
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.26 x 5.46 x 0.71 in (20.98 x 13.87 x 1.80 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Life
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 000021355
  • Dewey Decimal Code 113.8

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