Baltimore Book of the Dead (eBook)

Marion Winik (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
Counterpoint (Verlag)
978-1-64009-122-1 (ISBN)

Infos

“You’ll want to read The Baltimore Book of the Dead as slowly as possible because every observation is a marvel, every sentence a heartbreak or a revelation of joy. This book is both brief and miraculous, and it will be finished before you’re ready to let it go. Like life.” —Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth

When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time and again, she chose The Glen Rock Book of the Dead. Now that beloved book has a sequel: The Baltimore Book of the Dead, another collection of portraits of the dead, their compressed narratives weaving a unusual, richly populated memoir.

Approaching mourning and memory with intimacy, humor, and an eye for the idiosyncratic, the story begins in the 1960s in Marion Winik’s native New Jersey, winds through Austin, Texas and rural Pennsylvania, and finally settles in her current home of Baltimore.

Winik begins with a portrait of her mother, the Alpha, introducing locales and language around which other stories will orbit: the power of family, home, and love; the pain of loss and the tenderness of nostalgia; the backdrop of nature and public events. From there, she goes on to create a highly personal panorama of the last half century of American life. Joining the Alpha are the Man Who Could Take Off His Thumb, the Babydaddy, the Warrior Poetess, El Suegro, and the Thin White Duke, not to mention a miniature poodle and a goldfish.

Autor

Longtime All Things Considered commentator MARION WINIK is the author of First Comes Love, The Glen Rock Book of the Dead, and seven other books. Her Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com has received the Best Column and Best Humorist awards from Baltimore Magazine, and her essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun, and many other publications. She is the host of The Weekly Reader radio show and podcast, based at the Baltimore NPR affiliate. She reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Reviews and is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is a professor in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Abigail Thomas • Above Us Only Sky • All Things Considered • Baltimore Magazine • book recommendations from cheryl strayed • books about death • books about obituaries • books about place • boycrazy • Cheryl Strayed • collections of obituaries • cory taylor • dying: a memoir • Edgar Lee Masters • First Comes Love • Highs in the Low Fifties • jeannie vanasco • joan wickersham • joy castro • Marian • maryanne winick • meditations on death • National Book Critics Circle • nonstop • Politically Incorrect • putting my father’s death in order • Rules for the Unruly • safekeeping • short nonfiction • Spoon River Anthology • Telling • the book of resting places • the galss eye • The Glen Rock Book of the Dead • The Lunch-Box Chronicles • the suicide index • the truth book • thomas mira y lopez • University of Baltimore • vignettes
• ISBN-10: 1-64009-122-X / 164009122X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64009-122-1 / 9781640091221