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Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit

A dirgeful beach read.
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Delightful ... Obit­u­ary-writ­ing is a seri­ous occu­pa­tion but, sur­pris­ing­ly, it also has its lighter moments. Roberts cap­tures these and pays warm-heart­ed trib­ute to his fel­low obit­u­ar­ists as well as their deserv­ing (and some­times unde­serv­ing) sub­jects. He is a genial, if some­times rep­e­ti­tious, guide through the com­plex­i­ties of the genre.
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One of those books that gives us a new appreciation and greater understanding of something we thought we already knew.
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