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[Only registered and activated users can see links] The Book of Resting Places
Author(s): Thomas Mira y Lopez
Language: English
Published: 01 November 2017
Publisher: Counterpoint
ISBN: 1619021234
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Essays
Categories: Essays, Literary Criticism, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
"The Book of Resting Places is Mira y Lopez's account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He's looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere." -The New Yorker
In the aftermath of his father's untimely death and his family's indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez became obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The result is a singular collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author's search for a place to process grief.
Mira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds-from the world's largest cryonics institute in southern Arizona to a set of Roman catacombs being digested by modern bacteria, to his family's burial plots in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to a nineteenth-century desert cemetery that was relocated for the building of a modern courthouse. The Book of Resting Places examines these overlooked spaces and what they tell us about ourselves and the passing of those we love-how we grieve them, and how we attempt to forget them.
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Author(s): Thomas Mira y Lopez
Language: English
Published: 01 November 2017
Publisher: Counterpoint
ISBN: 1619021234
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Essays
Categories: Essays, Literary Criticism, Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction
"The Book of Resting Places is Mira y Lopez's account of his travels, from a cemetery to a crematorium to a cryonics company . . . He's looking for the good death, somewhere, anywhere." -The New Yorker
In the aftermath of his father's untimely death and his family's indecision over what to do with the remains, Thomas Mira y Lopez became obsessed with the type and variety of places where we lay the dead to rest. The result is a singular collection of essays that weaves together history, mythology, journalism, and personal narrative into the author's search for a place to process grief.
Mira y Lopez explores unusual hallowed grounds-from the world's largest cryonics institute in southern Arizona to a set of Roman catacombs being digested by modern bacteria, to his family's burial plots in the mountains outside Rio de Janeiro to a nineteenth-century desert cemetery that was relocated for the building of a modern courthouse. The Book of Resting Places examines these overlooked spaces and what they tell us about ourselves and the passing of those we love-how we grieve them, and how we attempt to forget them.
Download Thomas Mira y Lopez - The Book of Resting Places- A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead
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