The last good funeral of the year /
by O'Loughlin, Ed.
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BookPublisher: London : riverrun, 2022Description: 196 pages ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781529417067 (hbk.) :; 1529417066 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 306.9 OLOSubject(s): O'Loughlin, Ed | Death | Middle age -- Psychological aspects | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- | Literature | Literature | Memoirs | Literature: history & criticism | Sociology: death & dyingSummary: It was February 2020, when Ed O'Loughlin heard that Charlotte, a woman he'd known had died, young and before her time. He realised that he was being led to reappraise his life, his family and his career as a foreign correspondent and acclaimed novelist in a new, colder light. He was suddenly faced with facts that he had been ignoring, that he was getting old, that he wasn't what he used to be, that his imagination, always over-active, had at some point reversed its direction, switching production from dreams to regrets. He saw he was mourning his former self, not Charlotte. The search for meaning becomes the driving theme of O'Loughlin's year of confinement. Moving, funny, and searingly honest, 'The Last Good Funeral of the Year' takes the reader on a circular journey from present to past and back to the present.
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| 306.9 CHA Funeral arranging and end-of-life decisions : a step-by-step guide / | 306.9 DOI This mortal coil : a history of death / | 306.9 HEB Let's talk about death (over dinner) : an invitation and guide to life's most important conversation / | 306.9 OLO The last good funeral of the year / | 307.3416 HOL The phoenix: | 307.7609 NOR Cities that shaped the ancient world / | 307.77 EVA The utopia experiment |
It was February 2020, when Ed O'Loughlin heard that Charlotte, a woman he'd known had died, young and before her time. He realised that he was being led to reappraise his life, his family and his career as a foreign correspondent and acclaimed novelist in a new, colder light. He was suddenly faced with facts that he had been ignoring, that he was getting old, that he wasn't what he used to be, that his imagination, always over-active, had at some point reversed its direction, switching production from dreams to regrets. He saw he was mourning his former self, not Charlotte. The search for meaning becomes the driving theme of O'Loughlin's year of confinement. Moving, funny, and searingly honest, 'The Last Good Funeral of the Year' takes the reader on a circular journey from present to past and back to the present.
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