Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune - Paperback
by John Pope
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496853622ISBN-10:1496853628UPC:9781496853622Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, United States, JournalismBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCY468FYBB
Getting Off at Elysian Fields: Obituaries from the New Orleans Times-Picayune
No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781496853622ISBN-10:1496853628UPC:9781496853622Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, History, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Cultural & Regional, United States, JournalismBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCY468FYBB
John Pope has written obituaries throughout his forty-four-year career in journalism and was a member of the New Orleans Times-Picayune team that won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Headliner Award, and a George Polk Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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