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Life After Death - The Art of the Obituary (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Life After Death - The Art of the Obituary (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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The obituary pages of our quality newspapers have been described as
oases of calm in a world gone mad , a lovely part of the paper to
linger in , and writing that matters . Entertaining, inspiring and
informative, they serve as a legitimate instrument of history, and
have enjoyed an extraordinary revival in popularity over the past
twenty years. Life After Death investigates and celebrates the
development of the obituary form in the British, American, and
Australian press. Author Nigel Starck tracks down the earliest
exercise in obituary publication (in 1622), then traces the
evolution of the form over four centuries, from times when the
obituary was the reserve of royalty and privilege to its
contemporary egalitarian mode. Along the way Dr Starck delves into
a multitude of lives, from the heroic to the comic, the saintly to
the downright villainous, the exemplary to the eccentric. Meet, in
the posthumous cast list, Major Digby Tatham-Warter, of Britain s
Parachute Regiment, who carried an umbrella into battle just in
case it rained; the absent-minded Australian barrister Pat Lanigan,
who drove from Canberra to Sydney and then flew back, leaving his
car behi
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