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SOLVED. Book of Obituaries. [s]
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Aug 23, 2021 09:54PM
Hey, there was a book I stumbled onto a sample of on Amazon back in 2000s, I think, where it's like a book of fictional obituaries, but ones written about real people. To clarify, the people are real, but the obituaries written about them are fictional. Basically, the author wanted to use the obituary format to explore the complicated legacy of various historical figures or celebrities. I know one of these obituaries was about the guy who invented the AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov.
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Dead People by Stefany Anne Golberg?Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent years. The essays were written by Stefany Anne Golberg and 2013 Whiting Award winner Morgan Meis. The book covers twenty-eight dead people in all, including intellectuals like Susan Sontag, Christopher Hitchens and Eric Hobsbawn; musicians like Sun Ra, MCA (Beastie Boys) and Kurt Cobain; writers like David Foster Wallace, John Updike and Tom Clancy; artists like Thomas Kinkade and Robert Rauschenberg; and controversial political figures like Osama bin Laden and Mikhail Kalashnikov.
Mai wrote: "Dead People by Stefany Anne Golberg?Dead People is a book of eulogies, written for an eclectic assortment of famous and interesting people who died in recent year..."
Yes! I think that might be it.
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