Текст книги "The American Way of Death Revisited"
Автор книги: Jessica Mitford
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Acclaim for JESSICA MITFORD’s
The American Way of Death Revisited
“The American Way of Death Revisitedhas lost none of the original work’s power to shock, appall, and—despite the grim subject matter—jolt the funny bone.”
– Business Week
“Jessica Mitford was sui generis…. Even in death, Mitford continues to serve as the scourge of those who would profit obscenely from dying.”
– Portland Oregonian
“No less startling, or entertaining, than the original.”
– The New York Times Book Review
“The ‘value added’ of this edition is considerable…. Nobody will ever bring to [the battle against the funeral industry] the combination of irony, brio, grit and vitriol that stamped the Mitford style.”
– Los Angeles Times
“Excellent…. Her revealing interviews allow unscrupulous funeral-industry honchos to dig, as it were, their own graves.”
– Entertainment Weekly
“Even in death, Jessica Mitford continues to serve as the scourge of those who would profit obscenely from the dead.”
– St. Louis Post-Dispatch
About the Author
Jessica Mitford—of the notorious Mitford clan—was one of the most celebrated muckraking journalists of our time. Among her books are Daughters and Rebels, The Trial of Dr. Spock, and Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking. Until her death in 1996, she lived in Oakland, California, with her husband, the labor lawyer Robert Treuhaft.
Also by JESSICA MITFORD
Daughters and Rebels
The American Way of Death
The Trial of Dr. Spock
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison Business
A Fine Old Conflict
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking
Faces of Philip: A Memoir of Philip Toynbee
Grace Had an English Heart
The American Way of Birth
Copyright
FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JANUARY 2000
Copyright© 1998 by The Estate of Jessica Mitford
Copyright © 1963, 1978 by Jessica Mitford
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1998, and in very different form as The American Way of Deathby Simon & Schuster, New York, in 1963, and revised in 1978.
Vintage Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Mitford, Jessica, 1917–1996
The American way of death revisited / by Jessica Mitford. – 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Undertakers and undertaking—United States. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Economic aspects—United States. 3. Mitford, Jessica, 1917–1996, The American Way of Death.
I. Title.
HD9999.U53U554 1998
338.4′736375′0973—dc21 97-49349
eISBN: 978-0-307-80939-1
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