具體描述
The New York Times comes each morning and never fails to deliver news of the important dead. Every day is new; every day is fraught with significance. I arrange my cup of tea, prop up my slippers. Obituaries are history as it is happening. Whose time am I living in? Was he a success or a failure, lucky or doomed, older than I am or younger? Did she know how to live? I shake out the pages. Tell me the secret of a good life!Where else can you celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys, the school lunch lady who spent her evenings as a ballroom hostess? No wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and go directly to the obituary page. The Dead Beat is the story of how these stories get told. Enthralled by the fascinating lives that were marching out of this world, Marilyn Johnson tumbled into the obits page to find out what made it so lively. She sought out the best obits in the English language and chased the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. Surveying the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, surviving a mass gathering of obituarists, and making a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all, Marilyn Johnson leads us into the cult and culture behind the obituary page. The result is a rare combination of scrapbook and compelling read, a trip through recent history and the unusual lives we don't quite appreciate until they're gone.
著者簡介
瑪裏琳·約翰遜（Marilyn Johnson），專欄作傢。曾為《生活》等雜誌撰稿，並擔任過《君子》等雜誌的編輯，她的作品散見於這些雜誌和其他著名刊物。
瑪裏琳·約翰遜曾經為戴安娜王妃、傑奎琳·奧納西斯、伊莉莎白-泰勒、凱瑟琳·赫本、約翰尼·卡什、鮑伯·霍普和馬龍 白蘭度等著名人物撰寫訃告。很多讀者以閱讀她寫的訃告為樂，並評價說：“如果她可以給我寫上一段訃告，我即便現在死瞭，似乎也值得瞭。”甚至還打趣道：“我一定不能讓她比我先死，不然就找不到更適閤的人給我寫訃告瞭。”
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