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The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

by Marilyn Johnson

Cover of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

The cult and culture of the obituaries.

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