Sweet Sorrow by Mark Wakely - ISBN: 9780522855135
Paperback
Introducing readers to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers, this book reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in life.

Sweet Sorrow

A Beginner's Guide to Death

$52.99

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2008

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Summary

This is the one book that you will want to take to the grave.This remarkable book-at times heart-breaking, at times humorous-is dazzling for its profound honesty.Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious- death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents’ deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences- our own morta…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522855135
ISBN-10:052285513X
Author:Mark Wakely
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:1st
Release Date:1 May 2008
Weight:305g
Dimensions:234mm x 155mm x 18mm
About The Author

Mark Wakely

Mark Wakely is a Sydney-based writer, and a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. His first book, Dream Home-a reflection on domestic architecture and the meaning of home-was short-listed for the 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction.

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