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The American Way of Death Revisited - Jessica Mitford
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23Страниц
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105 тыс.Всего слов

Язык книги: русский
Издательство: Vintage Books
Город: New York
Год издания: 2000
ISBN: 978-0-307-80939-1
Размер: 242 Кб
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“Mitford’s funny and unforgiving book is the best memento moriwe are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health.”

— The New York Review of Books

Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963 this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in “the dismal trade.”

Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisitedconfronts new trends, including the success of the profession’s lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh’s novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisitedwill not fail to inform, delight, and disturb.

“Brilliant… hilarious… A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime.”

— New York Post

“Witty and penetrating—it speaks the truth.”

— The Washington Post

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