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040 _cQCPL
082 _a070.44992
100 1 _aJohnson, Marilyn
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe dead beat
_b: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries
_c/ Marilyn Johnson
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHarperPerennial,
_c[2007]
300 _aviii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [245]-247).
505 0 _aI walk the dead beat
505 0 _aA wake of obituarists
505 0 _aName that bit
505 0 _aThe mighty and the fallen of New York
505 0 _aNow you know
505 0 _aOrdinary Joe
505 0 _aThe egalitarians
505 0 _aTributes
505 0 _aThe four horsemen of the apocalypse
505 0 _aGoogling death
505 0 _aThe obit writer's obit
650 _aObituaries
_vHistory and criticism
650 _aDeath
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK