From the Back Cover:
Praise for The Undertaking:
'Funny, elegant and unbearably sad... A dignified little masterpiece by a man who understands the business of life and death.'
Jessamy Calkin, GQ
'A funny and seriously moral book, full of small-town sagacity and universal wisdom. Anecdotal but also philosophical, pragmatic yet lyrical... It may come too late to help the dead, but the living should read it while they can.'
Blake Morrison, Literary Review
'Stunning... The Undertaking's unclassifiable combining of personal histories, pathology and hard-earned wisdom is mixed with a delicately illuminating poetic insight. It is both serious... and wryly humorous.'
Nicholas Wroe, Financial Times
'While you're still lucky enough to be alive, go out and buy this book.'
Laura Cumming, Guardian
'Tom Lynch's book achieves an extraordinary range of tones - sombre, blackly comedic, plain spoken, lamentory - all of them united by Lynch's good-humoured morbidity. He has written a personal and quirky kind of masterpiece.'
John Lanchester
About the Author:
Thomas Lynch is the author of a previous collection of essays, The Undertaking, which was shortlisted for the 1997 National Book Award, and two collections of poetry: Grimalkin &Other Poems (1994) and Still Life in Milford (1998). He lives and works in Milford, Michigan, where he is the funeral director, and in West Clare where he keeps an ancestral cottage.
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