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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 1st edition by (2000) Hardcover
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Bester Preis: € 7,27 (vom 25.03.2018)Bodies in Motion and at Rest (2001)
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Greener Books Ltd.
Vintage, 05/03/2001. Paperback. Used; Good. **WE SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FROM LONDON, UK, 98% OF OUR ORDERS ARE RECEIVED WITHIN 7-10 DAYS. We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence!
Bodies in Motion and at Rest
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage Uk, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Discover Books.
Vintage Uk. Hardcover. GOOD. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Century Hutchinson; Random Century; Random House, United States of America, gebraucht.
A collection of essays that examine the relations between the literary and the mortuary arts. They explore the distance between birth and death, the condition of the human being and the state of ceasing to be in a world that seeks to define human experience in retail, high-tech or pop-psyche terms.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
ISBN: 0393049272 bzw. 9780393049275, in Englisch, W. W. Norton & Company, gebraucht.
classics,essays,essays and correspondence,humanities,literature,literature and fiction,metaphysics,philosophy,politics and social sciences,textbooks, All poets who take their jobs seriously spend a good deal of their time pondering death. Few, though, have logged as many hours as Thomas Lynch, who for 25 years has been a funeral director in Milford, Michigan. As might be expected from a writer who performs "daily stations with the local lately dead," Lynch's second essay collection, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, has a lot to say about both the current state of his industry (with its "Walmartized" funerals) and the attitude Americans have toward death, which is more or less to pretend it doesn't exist and to hope it never happens to us or anyone we know. Of course, this leads to our inability to properly understand life. And we become one of those stunned mumblers whom the author has spent a lifetime consoling and selling caskets to at Lynch & Sons. As in his previous collection, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Lynch muses on contemporary American life with an appealing mix of light and dark. The effect can be striking, especially in his essays on the death of a crafty old gravedigger; the alcoholism he inherited from his father and, devastatingly, watches develop in his son; his divorce and the wicked poem he later writes about his ex-wife. His prose is always lively, though in several essays he relies on the same cultural touchstones--Bill Gates, the Internet, his Catholic-school upbringing and the "wonderful breasts" of the nuns, and.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
ISBN: 0393321649 bzw. 9780393321647, in Englisch, W W Norton, gebraucht.
classics,essays,essays and correspondence,humanities,literature,literature and fiction,metaphysics,philosophy,politics and social sciences,textbooks, Bodies In Motion And At Rest, All poets who take their jobs seriously spend a good deal of their time pondering death. Few, though, have logged as many hours as Thomas Lynch, who for 25 years has been a funeral director in Milford, Michigan. As might be expected from a writer who performs "daily stations with the local lately dead," Lynch's second essay collection, Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality, has a lot to say about both the current state of his industry (with its "Walmartized" funerals) and the attitude Americans have toward death, which is more or less to pretend it doesn't exist and to hope it never happens to us or anyone we know. Of course, this leads to our inability to properly understand life. And we become one of those stunned mumblers whom the author has spent a lifetime consoling and selling caskets to at Lynch & Sons. As in his previous collection, The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, Lynch muses on contemporary American life with an appealing mix of light and dark. The effect can be striking, especially in his essays on the death of a crafty old gravedigger; the alcoholism he inherited from his father and, devastatingly, watches develop in his son; his divorce and the wicked poem he later writes about his ex-wife. His prose is always lively, though in several essays he relies on the same cultural touchstones--Bill Gates, the Internet, his Catholic-school upbringing and the "wonderful breasts" of the nuns, and.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest (2001)
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage Uk, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest (2001)
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage, Taschenbuch.
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest (2001)
ISBN: 9780099273233 bzw. 0099273233, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Greener Books, London, [RE:4].
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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 1st edition by (2000) Hardcover (2000)
ISBN: 9780641592119 bzw. 0641592116, in Englisch, 192 Seiten, W.W. Norton, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, RockMountainBooks.
Hardcover, Edition: 1st, Label: W.W. Norton, W.W. Norton, Product group: Book, Published: 2000, Studio: W.W. Norton, Sales rank: 3953040.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 1st edition by (2000) Hardcover (2000)
ISBN: 9780641592119 bzw. 0641592116, in Englisch, 192 Seiten, W.W. Norton, gebundenes Buch, neu, Erstausgabe.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Hiredservant.
Hardcover, Edition: 1st, Label: W.W. Norton, W.W. Norton, Product group: Book, Published: 2000, Studio: W.W. Norton, Sales rank: 3953040.