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  • The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

    Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    “[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” —Time Out New YorkHere is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between “the living and the living who have died” with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Apparition & Late Fictions

    A Novella and Stories

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    "Lynch has added another chapter to one of the most memorable records in American letters."—William Giraldi, New York Times Book ReviewThese stories are linked by the gone and not forgotten: former spouses, dead parents, missing children. Lynch creates a world in which people searching for connection and old comforts find them both near at hand and oddly out of reach. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bone Rosary

    New and Selected Poems

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    A selection of the very best from one of America’s most thought-provoking writers: poems on life, faith, doubt, and death that read like memoir, essay, and story. As The New York Times said, “likely to resonate with many who have come face to face with life’s most important questions.”Thomas Lynch—like Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams—is a poet who writes about real things with language ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Depositions

    New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    **Foreword by Alan Ball“Elegant, respectful and refreshingly funny.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice**For nearly four decades, poet, essayist, and small-town funeral director Thomas Lynch has probed relations between the literary and mortuary arts with a signature blend of memoir, meditation, gallows humor, and poetic precision. The Depositions offers a wry and compassionate selection ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Booking Passage

    We Irish and Americans

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    "A good read even for those who have not the least ancestral or national bias—for those who desire civilized entertainment along with brilliant narrative." —Seattle TimesIn thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Prisoners

    A Novel

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    An aged trade embalmer discovers a new connection to life. As a husband, he promised his dying wife he’d write their story of love and grief, sweetness, sadness. Twenty-five years later, he may not have a first sentence for the story of their marriage but he does have the start of a loving final chapter of his own.If sex and the dead, as Yeats instructed, are topics worthy of a serious mind, then ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Still Life In Milford

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    In Still Life in Milford, Lynch casts the cold eye we are told to on life and death, history and memory, the local and the larger geographics. Examining the dynamics of faith, remembrance, and intimate conduct, these poems are informed by end times, tribulations and visions that make up the ordinary enterprise of daily life.Colloquy and narrative, soliloquy and tribute, Still Life in Milford ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Apocalyptic Political Theology

    Hegel, Taubes and Malabou

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    Series series Political Theologies
    Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, this political theology is a resource for apocalyptic thinking. In a world of climate change, inequality, oppressive gender roles and racism, Hegel can be used to theorise the hope found in the end of that world.Histories of apocalyptic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Whence and Whither

    On Lives and Living

    by 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • High Speed Rail in the US

    Super Trains for the Millennium

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    This book is intended to help fill some of the technical and policy information gaps identified earlier as sources constraining further development of high speed rail (HSR) systems in the US. It addresses the key aspects of planning, development and implementation of HSR systems. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Beneath the Skin

    Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers

    by Ned Beauman, Naomi Alderman, Thomas Lynch, Philip Kerr, A. L. Kennedy, Chibundu Onuzo, Various ...
    Series series
    Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers?Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us.In Beneath the Skin, fifteen writers each explore a different body part: Naomi Alderman unravels the intestines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Good Funeral

    Death, Grief, and the Community of Care

    by Thomas G. Long, Thomas Lynch ...
    Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lensesâ€"one as a preacher and one as a funeral directorâ€"Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral ... Read more

    $20.99 USD