The Undertaking Life Studies from the Dismal Trade [Paperback]

A startling and eloquent meditation on death and bereavement&If you think this book isn't about you, or for you, think again.A memoir that is stand-out superb.Mr. Lynch emerges as a cross between Garrison Keillor and one of the Irish poets; one thinks of William Butler Yeats&Forceful, authentic, and full of a kind of ethical and aesthetic clarity.[Lynch] is able to take us inside the palpable business of blood, tears, and the final verse of life in a manner that is almost shocking in the relief it delivers&[A] fine, sensible, and wise book.Lynchs vivid prose has the electricity of writing that tells us what is going on in the secret places of the communityand the secret places of the heart.A National Book Award Finalist: One of the most life-affirming books I have read in a long time&brims with humanity, irreverence, and invigorating candor. Tom Vanderbilt,