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Thomas Lynch

Thomas Lynch is a funeral director and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and Harper’s, among others. He is the author of five collections of poems and four books of essays, including The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2008. He lives in Milford, Michigan, and Moveen, County Clare, Ireland.

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Whence and Whither

On Lives and Living

Author(s):
Thomas Lynch

From one of our most gifted writers and thinkers about death and the meaning of living comes a collection of writings about “what comes next.” Thomas Lynch, funeral director, poet, and author of the National Book Award finalist The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, has an uncanny knack for writing about death in ways that are never morbid, always thoughtful, often humorous, and quite moving. From his account of riding in the hearse at the funeral of poet laureate Seamus Heaney, to...
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Price: $24.00
Publication Date: 03/12/2019
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The Good Funeral

Death, Grief, and the Community of Care

Author(s):
Thomas Long
Thomas Lynch

"Before long I began to understand that showing up, being there, helping in an otherwise helpless situation was made heroic by the same gravity I had sensed when I first stood in that embalming room as a boy—the presence of the dead made the presence of the living more meaningful somehow, as if it involved a basic and intuitively human duty to witness." —from Chapter 1, "How We Come to Be the Ones We Are"Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together ...
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Price: $36.00
Publication Date: 08/23/2013