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Rent The Last Word: Reviving the Dying Art of Eulogy
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: May 2017
Genre: Social Science - Death & Dying
Retail Price: $13.95
Pages: 168
Synopsis
The Last Word investigates the debased art of eulogy. Through insightful, surprisingly playful readings of famous eulogies (from a scene in Love Actually to Jacques Derrida's heart-rending essays on the deaths of his peers), Cooper argues against the socially sanctioned desire to avoid thinking about death that results in cliched memorials, honoring neither the living nor the dead.