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

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

Gisleson, Anne (author.).

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.

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

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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 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.
Subject: Gisleson, Anne
Grief Biography
Loss (Psychology) Biography
Book clubs (Discussion groups) Louisiana New Orleans
Books and reading Psychological aspects
Books and reading Social aspects
New Orleans (La.) Biography
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement
Genre: Autobiographies.


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