The dead beat : lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries /: lost souls, lucky stiffs, and the perverse pleasures of obituaries. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marilyn Johnson.
• Other Names: Johnson, Marilyn, 1954-
• Contents: 1. I walk the dead beat -- 2. A wake of obituarists -- 3. Name that bit -- 4. The mighty and the fallen of New York : -- The Irish sports pages -- The franchise -- Portraits of grief -- Goodbye! -- Attention must be paid -- 5. Now you know -- 6. Ordinary Joe -- 7. The egalitarians -- 8. Tributes -- 9. The four horsemen of the Apocalypse : -- The obituary capital -- Boiled in oil, and other -- Terrible fates in the Daily Telegraph -- A few words about the code -- Following the Guardian into the mist -- An Independent bent -- Lives of the Times -- 10. Googling death -- 11. The obit writer's obit.
• Publisher Details: New York : HarperCollins e-books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 070.4/4992; Obituaries -- History and criticism; Obituaries; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780061850363; 0061850365
• Related ISBNs: 9780060758769
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.