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  • A Sorrow Beyond Dreams

    par Peter Handke ...
    Traduit par Ralph Manheim ...
    Collections series Pushkin Collection
    "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost ... En savoir plus

    $18.39 CAD

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    Undertakers Lift the Lid

    Discover a more lighthearted side of the funeral industry in this collection of real-life stories from the authors of Mortuary Confidential.Not knowing what to do, I sat on the church steps and waited. As the gravity of my failure began to well up in me, I began to cry . . . I Had Lost The Hearse!Funerals and the all the things that accompany them are traditionally somber, contemplative events in ... En savoir plus

    $10.89 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Dancing on Her Grave

    The Murder of a Las Vegas Showgirl

    From the co-author of I Would Find a Girl Walking and an award-winning true-crime television reporter comes the shocking story of Debbie Flores, a Las Vegas showgirl whose dreams of a dazzling career ended in a nightmare…Vivacious Debbie Flores was a college educated Washington Redskins cheerleader when she headed for “Sin City.” It was a smart move for the aspiring showgirl who’d soon be making ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Never Say Die

    The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

    par Susan Jacoby ...
    Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Confessions of a Funeral Director

    How Death Saved My Life

    par Caleb Wilde ...
    "Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death." — Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for SundayWe are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Collected Poems

    par Philip Larkin ...
    Since its publication in 1988, Philip Larkin's Collected Poems has become essential reading on any poetry bookshelf. This new edition returns to Larkin's own deliberate ordering of his poems, presenting, in their original sequence, his four published books: The North Ship, The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows. It also includes an appendix of poems that Larkin published in other ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Men of Action

    par Howard Akler ...
    Collections series Exploded Views
    After his father, Saul, undergoes brain surgery and slips into a coma, Howard Akler begins to reflect on Saul's life, the complicated texture of consciousness, and Akler's struggles with writing and his own unpredictable mind. With echoes of Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth's Patrimony, Men of Action treads the line between memoir and meditation, and is at once elegiac, ... En savoir plus

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Removers

    A Memoir

    par Andrew Meredith ...
    “A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.Andrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s a transgression that resulted in such long-lasting familial despair that Andrew cannot forgive him. In the ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Death and Taxes

    Hydriotaphia and Other Plays

    par Tony Kushner ...
    "This is an odd assemblage of plays, for which gathering-together there is no overarching thematic justification. Because several of the plays deal with death, and one of the death-plays deals as well with money, and the last play deals with taxation, we're calling the book Death & Taxes. But all plays, directly or indirectly, are about death and taxes, so this title explains little..." –Tony ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Recovering from the Loss of a Parent

    An extremely well-written, compassionate guide for the millions of people who come face to face with a death in their own familiesLosing a parent is a traumatic blow, and the grief can seem unbearable. But you are not alone, and you can get through this. In this first book dedicated to the experience of adults who have lost a parent, expert-on-grief Katherine Fair Donnelly shares intimate, telling ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Raised in Captivity

    par Nicky Silver ...
    With sharp comic turns and absurdist twists, Raised in Captivity explores the guilt, self-punishment, and redemption in the lives of two estranged and equally odd siblings when they reunite at the funeral of their mother--whose demise was caused by nothing less than an errant showerhead. ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Good Death

    An Exploration of Dying in America

    par Ann Neumann ...
    Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD