Sweet Sorrow
A Beginner's Guide to Death
$73.58
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2008
Summary
This is the one book that you will want to take to the grave.This remarkable book-at times heart-breaking, at times humorous-is dazzling for its profound honesty.Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious- death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents’ deaths. Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences- our own morta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522855135 |
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| ISBN-10: | 052285513X |
| Author: | Mark Wakely |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2008 |
| Weight: | 305g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Mark Wakely
Mark Wakely is a Sydney-based writer, and a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Radio National. His first book, Dream Home-a reflection on domestic architecture and the meaning of home-was short-listed for the 2004 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for non-fiction.
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