{"product_id":"libro-enterrador-el","title":"El sepulturero","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark in American literature, winner of the American Book Award and the Heartland Prize for nonfiction, and a finalist for the National Book Award.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One of the most invigorating books I’ve read [...]. It brims with humanity, irreverence, and an exhilarating innocence.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTom Vanderbilt,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A simply magnificent memoir.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEsquire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cb\u003eEvery year I bury about two hundred neighbors\u003c\/b\u003e.” This is how the singular testimony of poet Thomas Lynch begins. Like all poets, Lynch draws inspiration from death, but unlike others, he also makes a living from it: for years he has worked as a funeral director in a small Michigan town, where he handles burials, cremations, and funeral services for his community.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNarrated with the tenderness of someone who has dealt daily with the pain of others, in this unique collection of essays Lynch's two vocations meet, and he reveals himself both as a competent official of mourning and as a writer who, movingly, tunes language to the fibers of inner liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for the book:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Powerful, authentic, and full of a kind of ethical and aesthetic clarity.”\u003cbr\u003eRichard Bernstein\u003ci\u003e, The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Thomas Lynch proves himself a master of the essay form.”\u003cbr\u003eSusan Jacoby, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Essays that are profoundly human and attentive to the tragic, comic, and sometimes surprising quirks of human life [...]. A broad look at what it means to be human.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A surprising and eloquent reflection on death and loss [...]. If you think this book is neither about you nor for you, think twice.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Brings us lessons about death to life and turns life and death into art.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“A unheard-of and tender book. Lynch writes wonderfully [...]. Each chapter captivates us, instructs us, and illuminates how we live, die, and, above all, love.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thomas Lynch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43348615921912,"sku":"9788420465951","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/AL6595A.jpg?v=1665537087","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/libro-enterrador-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}