The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading

Summary: A memoir of loss, friendship, and literature explores how the author and her husband, devastated by the deaths of family members and the loss of their home in Hurricane Katrina, established a reading group with friends who also endured difficult life setbacks.

Item details

ISBN: 0316393908
ISBN: 9780316393904
Physical Description: print
260 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).

Formatted Contents Note:

January: All is vanity -- February: World of stone -- March: The belly of the whale -- April: The last suffer; or, The way of the crisis (Via Dolorosa) -- May: The dark wood -- June: Voices over water -- July: The least dead among all of us -- August: The metaphysical hangover -- September: The walled city -- October: The unwalled city -- November: Nineveh -- December: Sharing bread -- New Year's Eve: Tanks versus chickens.

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Gisleson, Anne
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement

Genre:

Autobiographies.

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