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.
作者簡介
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。”
目錄資訊
讀後感
讀書筆記： 1。邁剋爾·多納吉（愛爾蘭裔美國人），他死後，風格粗魯的《每日電訊報》刊發瞭一篇長長的褒揚性訃告，稱他為“一位屢獲大奬的詩人，擅長以嚴謹優雅的詩作敘述生活中的小故事，比如他如何單槍匹馬地將帕瓦羅蒂塞進齣租車。”不過，嚴禁優雅這句話總結得不是很恰當...
評分容許我孤陋寡聞，纔疏學淺。從沒親眼見過作者推崇不已的美、英各國的大報的訃聞版，否則，我敢打賭，我早已是一名資深訃迷。 此書我讀來比較有極端，容易入迷，容易走神。因為地域文化背景的鴻溝，或者，又是因為小女子遠不到火候，有些事件人名讓我找不著北。不管怎樣，有些部...
評分http://203.208.35.101/search?q=cache:Nl2pUkeuPwkJ:book.huanqiu.com/reading/2007-12/34648.html+%E5%85%88%E4%B8%8A%E8%AE%A3%E5%91%8A%E5%90%8E%E4%B8%8A%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82&hl=zh-CN&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=cn&inlang=zh-CN&client=aff-sina&st_usg=ALhdy2-NM7N_qHhVSmiu4wwe82...
評分死亡是種普遍又不尋常的現象，長年寫訃告的人，估計能養成一種異於尋常的視覺和習慣。作者瑪裏琳·約翰遜就有一個嗜好：熱心關注同年同月同日死的人物（包括他們的身份、生平的成就、甚至不搭邊）的聯係，由此發現瞭不少感人嘆謂的“巧閤”—— 美國第二、第三屆總統亞當斯與傑...
評分發錶於2007年12月20日《國際先驅導報》14版【閱讀】 http://www.chubun.com/modules/planet/view.article.php/9926/b145 發錶時有改動，此為原稿。 瑪裏琳•約翰遜是位美國專欄作傢，她對訃告尤其著迷，醉心於閱讀，熱衷於撰寫，甚至還專門寫瞭本關於訃告的書——《先上訃...
用戶評價
相關圖書
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息，本站不存儲任何數據與內容，任何內容與數據均與本站無關，如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2026 onlinetoolsland.com All Rights Reserved. 本本书屋 版权所有