Obit — Bobbio Scriptorium

✍ Victoria Chang 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Copper Canyon Press 🌐 English ⚖ 553 KB 👁 1 views

After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. In*Obit*, Chang writes of "the way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking." These p

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✍ Emery, Anne 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

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✍ Chang Victoria 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Copper Canyon Press 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB 👁 1 views

***The New York Times* 100 Notable Books of 2020** ***Time Magazine*'s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020** **NPR's Best Books of 2020** **National Book Award in Poetry, Longlist** **Frank Sanchez Book Award** After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her gr

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✍ Emery, Anne 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 ecw press 🌐 English ⚖ 259 KB

Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a coded indictment of Burke's own life. And an a

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✍ Daniel Paisner 📂 Fiction 📅 2016 🏛 Open Road Distribution 🌐 English ⚖ 171 KB

Axel Pimletz writes obituaries for a Boston newspaper. He's been going nowhere for the past fifteen years and his failure has almost consumed his self-esteem. Axel needs action and excitement, like a front-page story. He never guesses he's about to get both—along with murder!

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✍ Emery, Anne 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 ECW Press 🌐 English ⚖ 247 KB

Declan Burke fled Ireland forty years ago and never looked back. Now settled in New York, he thinks he's put the old country behind him, until he reads the obituary of one Cathal Murphy. The obituary, he sees at once, is not about Murphy at all. It is a coded indictment of Burke's own life. And an a