The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Thomas Lynch

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

Thomas Lynch

202 pages 1997

11 editions

nonfiction essays memoir reflective slow-paced
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"Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople." So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a...

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