The Grim Reader

By Richard Tristman and Maura Spiegel

Book Overview

The best classic and contemporary writing on mortality--from Montaigne to Monty Python--to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind. The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning--these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader , idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery. A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including: Vladimir Nabokov - John Ashbery - Samuel Beckett Adam Smith - Simone de Beauvoir - Grace Paley Giovanni Boccaccio - Bertolt Brecht - Roland Barthes James Baldwin - Primo Levi - Anne Sexton Luis Bu?uel - Paul Monette - Jessica Mitford - Stanley Elkin

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385485271
• ISBN13: 9780385485272
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 8.7"