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	Product Rating: Description: Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release. He is also a man of sardonic wit, uncovering humor where we least thought to find it--in our fear of and fascination with death. In its homages to parents who have died and to children who shouldn?t have, its tales of golfers tripping over grave markers, portraits of gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides, The Undertaking displays an impressively wide vocal range--from solemn, nostalgic, and lyrical to acerbic, sprightly, and unflinchingly professional. To Compare Prices Click Here: 1 store offers from $10 - $16 Read Reviews (1)

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Description: Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as well as a poet poignantly tuning language to the right tones of private release. He is also a man of sardonic wit, uncovering humor where we least thought to find it--in our fear of and fascination with death. In its homages to parents who have died and to children who shouldn?t have, its tales of golfers tripping over grave markers, portraits of gourmands and hypochondriacs, lovers and suicides, The Undertaking displays an impressively wide vocal range--from solemn, nostalgic, and lyrical to acerbic, sprightly, and unflinchingly professional.

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Key Information
Authors	Thomas Lynch
Fiction Genre	Literary Criticism
Fiction Subgenre
Awards	1998 American Book Award
Professional Reviews
Professional Reviews	Bloomsbury Review: "Lynch...is a poet who brings considerable skills of voice and tone to a series of interrelated essays on his work....His thoughts on the living and those who have lived are presented with a slightly amused empathy for the human condition and general outrage at how modern improvements often separate us from this remembered earth."
Book Editions
Book Editions	Paperback224September 01, 1998Penguin Group USA7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.4 lbs.9780140276237

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