Full name: The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

Author: Marilyn Johnson Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Humor, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060758769 0060758767 0060758759

Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world'€”so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all. Now she leads us on a compelling journey into the cult and culture behind the obituary page and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone. Similar books: Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell I Know You Got Soul by Jeremy Clarkson Writers Gone Wild by Bill Peschel The Trouble Begins at 8 by Sid Fleischman The Last Word by Marvin Siegel Will my cat eat my eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty Lives in Ruins by Marilyn Johnson How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg A Treasury of Royal Scandals by Michael Farquhar A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain Royal Babylon by Karl Shaw The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Bossypants by Tina Fey Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi