American afterlife : encounters in the customs of mourning
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Athens : The University of Georgia Press, ©2014.
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Published
Athens : The University of Georgia Press, ©2014.
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Book
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xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216).
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What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale--that of death in America. It's a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who find themselves personally involved with death: a klatch of obit writers in the desert, a funeral voyage on the Atlantic, a fourth-generation funeral director--even a midwestern museum that takes us back in time to meet our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another until something larger is revealed: a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that's by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Sweeney, K. (2014). American afterlife: encounters in the customs of mourning . The University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sweeney, Kate, 1978-. 2014. American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning. The University of Georgia Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Sweeney, Kate, 1978-. American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning The University of Georgia Press, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Sweeney, Kate. American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning The University of Georgia Press, 2014.

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