Author: Leigh Scott
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0692147098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The humor of dating tragically
Funeral Party till Death do us Part
Author: Leigh Scott
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0692147098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The humor of dating tragically
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0692147098
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The humor of dating tragically
Does Death Do Us Part
Author: Marques Vickers
Publisher: Marquis Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Marques Vickers’ “Does Death Do Us Part: The Effects of Death Upon The Living” is a collection of eleven short stories. Each narrative stresses profound impressions the loss of a close friend, acquaintance, or relation alters the life perspective of survivor. Written from first-person and third-party viewpoints, each narrative explores the impact loss has impacted on future financial security, intimacy, equilibrium, dreams, and the essential navigation of life. The Dreams of Yi: A middle-aged woman raised in Mainland China survives three loveless marriages and the enforcement of China’s one-child only policy to discover herself isolated and financially vulnerable in the Pacific Northwest. Her sole obsession becomes to remarry. Her turbulent past coupled by the burden of sorrow-filled dreams inhibits her progression forward. Will she find resolution through love or a fresh union? Silence Then Surprise: The eventual love of one’s life develops terminal lung cancer ending a promising marriage. Nearing his demise, Candace is unexpectantly surprised by content in his will and a subsequent apparition six months after his death. Genuine Relationships: A weekend book purchase at an Estate Sale reveals two passionate letters written by an estranged wife to her husband. The mystery behind the source and the inevitable outcome of the writer steers the book’s buyer towards an unforeseeable revelation. Shortchanged: A young woman loses a lover prematurely who had righted her errant past relationship choices. His shadow plagues her present needs for recovery and sexual intimacy. During an evening date, she faces the dilemma of relinquishing his influence or moving forward with her life. Unspoken Exchanges: The listener of a wife’s emotional confidence about her husband’s prolonged death attempts to sort out the confessor’s ambiguous feelings regarding religion, the afterlife, and impressions regarding her husband’s possible re-visitation. The conversations a couple never shared distorts her present confession also clouded by encroaching influences. The Disappearance of Love: A passionate attachment in high school is terminated by the abrupt departure of the young woman to parts unknown. Roaming postcards are followed by subsequent silence. Decades later, her middle-aged friend is haunted by past stories of her whereabouts, disturbing dreams, and a premonition that her prolonged silence may not have been her choice. Premonition of Death: What if you suddenly developed the ability to foresee an individual’s moment of death? This unexpected phenomenon becomes unnerving to the author who must determine its significance and interpretation towards his own existence. Reconsidering Simplistic Impressions: An unpleasant encounter with an elderly man spouting bigoted declarations is reexamined forty years later when his wartime diaries are discovered. What influences alter a small town man’s horizon when he enlists into the military and shipped overseas into the vortex of global warfare? The Summons: An admired and beautiful classmate dies suddenly without explanation nearing her college graduation. Decades later, a series of dream visitations by this classmate disturbs yet consoles the author. Why has he become the source for her summons? Forgotten: A distant and brief lover is revisited four years after the consummation of their encounter. Her appearance has altered radically and the visitor recognizes the insignificance on his impact on her life. An Exile in a Foreign Skin: Strong attraction evolving into a fledging relationship is thwarted by an unspoken history and precedent circumstances. A haunted evening further complicates the union. Can these obstacles, cultural differences and language barriers be ultimately overcome to create a healthy and supportive connection?
Publisher: Marquis Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
Marques Vickers’ “Does Death Do Us Part: The Effects of Death Upon The Living” is a collection of eleven short stories. Each narrative stresses profound impressions the loss of a close friend, acquaintance, or relation alters the life perspective of survivor. Written from first-person and third-party viewpoints, each narrative explores the impact loss has impacted on future financial security, intimacy, equilibrium, dreams, and the essential navigation of life. The Dreams of Yi: A middle-aged woman raised in Mainland China survives three loveless marriages and the enforcement of China’s one-child only policy to discover herself isolated and financially vulnerable in the Pacific Northwest. Her sole obsession becomes to remarry. Her turbulent past coupled by the burden of sorrow-filled dreams inhibits her progression forward. Will she find resolution through love or a fresh union? Silence Then Surprise: The eventual love of one’s life develops terminal lung cancer ending a promising marriage. Nearing his demise, Candace is unexpectantly surprised by content in his will and a subsequent apparition six months after his death. Genuine Relationships: A weekend book purchase at an Estate Sale reveals two passionate letters written by an estranged wife to her husband. The mystery behind the source and the inevitable outcome of the writer steers the book’s buyer towards an unforeseeable revelation. Shortchanged: A young woman loses a lover prematurely who had righted her errant past relationship choices. His shadow plagues her present needs for recovery and sexual intimacy. During an evening date, she faces the dilemma of relinquishing his influence or moving forward with her life. Unspoken Exchanges: The listener of a wife’s emotional confidence about her husband’s prolonged death attempts to sort out the confessor’s ambiguous feelings regarding religion, the afterlife, and impressions regarding her husband’s possible re-visitation. The conversations a couple never shared distorts her present confession also clouded by encroaching influences. The Disappearance of Love: A passionate attachment in high school is terminated by the abrupt departure of the young woman to parts unknown. Roaming postcards are followed by subsequent silence. Decades later, her middle-aged friend is haunted by past stories of her whereabouts, disturbing dreams, and a premonition that her prolonged silence may not have been her choice. Premonition of Death: What if you suddenly developed the ability to foresee an individual’s moment of death? This unexpected phenomenon becomes unnerving to the author who must determine its significance and interpretation towards his own existence. Reconsidering Simplistic Impressions: An unpleasant encounter with an elderly man spouting bigoted declarations is reexamined forty years later when his wartime diaries are discovered. What influences alter a small town man’s horizon when he enlists into the military and shipped overseas into the vortex of global warfare? The Summons: An admired and beautiful classmate dies suddenly without explanation nearing her college graduation. Decades later, a series of dream visitations by this classmate disturbs yet consoles the author. Why has he become the source for her summons? Forgotten: A distant and brief lover is revisited four years after the consummation of their encounter. Her appearance has altered radically and the visitor recognizes the insignificance on his impact on her life. An Exile in a Foreign Skin: Strong attraction evolving into a fledging relationship is thwarted by an unspoken history and precedent circumstances. A haunted evening further complicates the union. Can these obstacles, cultural differences and language barriers be ultimately overcome to create a healthy and supportive connection?
Till Death Do Us Part
Author: Allan Amanik
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496827902
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse, chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized, the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race, culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the United States during its formative centuries.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496827902
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Contributions by Allan Amanik, Kelly B. Arehart, Sue Fawn Chung, Kami Fletcher, Rosina Hassoun, James S. Pula, Jeffrey E. Smith, and Martina Will de Chaparro Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed explores the tendency among most Americans to separate their dead along communal lines rooted in race, faith, ethnicity, or social standing and asks what a deeper exploration of that phenomenon can tell us about American history more broadly. Comparative in scope, and regionally diverse, chapters look to immigrants, communities of color, the colonized, the enslaved, rich and poor, and religious minorities as they buried kith and kin in locales spanning the Northeast to the Spanish American Southwest. Whether African Americans, Muslim or Christian Arabs, Indians, mestizos, Chinese, Jews, Poles, Catholics, Protestants, or various whites of European descent, one thing that united these Americans was a drive to keep their dead apart. At times, they did so for internal preference. At others, it was a function of external prejudice. Invisible and institutional borders built around and into ethnic cemeteries also tell a powerful story of the ways in which Americans have negotiated race, culture, class, national origin, and religious difference in the United States during its formative centuries.
'Til Death Do Us Part...
Author: Charlotte Lewis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 166985115X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Roger Preston believed he had the perfect marriage. The lovely home, trophy wife, great job, friends. It's difficult to say just how much Covid-19 had to do with his rude awakening to the truth. But, without it, none of this story may have happened. Roger learns that the lifelong contract, 'til death do us part, is breakable; that the perfect marriage is an illusion. Two divorces, a murder. one trial by jury, new friendships, and one happy reunion are Roger's new reality. Pandemic to blame? Quite likely.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 166985115X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Roger Preston believed he had the perfect marriage. The lovely home, trophy wife, great job, friends. It's difficult to say just how much Covid-19 had to do with his rude awakening to the truth. But, without it, none of this story may have happened. Roger learns that the lifelong contract, 'til death do us part, is breakable; that the perfect marriage is an illusion. Two divorces, a murder. one trial by jury, new friendships, and one happy reunion are Roger's new reality. Pandemic to blame? Quite likely.
The Funeral Party
Author: Ludmila Ulitskaya
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030777256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.
Publisher: Schocken
ISBN: 030777256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
August 1991. In a sweltering New York City apartment, a group of Russian émigrés gathers round the deathbed of an artist named Alik, a charismatic character beloved by them all, especially the women who take turns nursing him as he fades from this world. Their reminiscences of the dying man and of their lives in Russia are punctuated by debates and squabbles: Whom did Alik love most? Should he be baptized before he dies, as his alcoholic wife, Nina, desperately wishes, or be reconciled to the faith of his birth by a rabbi who happens to be on hand? And what will be the meaning for them of the Yeltsin putsch, which is happening across the world in their long-lost Moscow but also right before their eyes on CNN? This marvelous group of individuals inhabits the first novel by Ludmila Ulitskaya to be published in English, a book that was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize and has been praised wherever translated editions have appeared. Simultaneously funny and sad, lyrical in its Russian sorrow and devastatingly keen in its observation of character, The Funeral Party introduces to our shores a wonderful writer who captures, wryly and tenderly, our complex thoughts and emotions confronting life and death, love and loss, homeland and exile.
'Til Death Do Us Part
Author: Eliza Watson
Publisher: Elizabeth Watson
ISBN: 1950786919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELIZA WATSON! A Reviewer Top Pick, Night Owl Romance--"There is definitely not a dull moment between the pages of 'Til Death Do Us Part." Six months ago, Cassidy Baldwin was among Milwaukee’s leading wedding planners, until she became the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. Now the only job she can land is organizing over-the-top themed funerals for her best friend’s family business. When the city’s most affluent and eccentric philanthropist dies, Cassidy is hired to fulfill the woman’s deathbed wish: find a wife for her playboy nephew, Ryan Mitchell. Ryan has always avoided the spotlight, and he’s not thrilled about the media attention spawned by this final decree. However, if he doesn’t marry within the year, his aunt’s quirky staff will lose their home and livelihoods. Ryan plans to have Cassidy find him a temporary wife, so he can save the estate and his pseudo family. She’s determined to find him a soul mate, since marrying off the city’s most eligible bachelor would enable Cassidy to launch a new matchmaking career and rebuild her reputation. After spending time with Ryan, Cassidy believes he isn’t the arrogant and insensitive playboy the media makes him out to be. Until she discovers he plans to divorce his perfect match, which might involve Cassidy in yet another scandal! If Ryan is capable of protecting and loving his aunt’s staff, will he one day be able to open his heart and marry for love? Readers also read books by the following authors: Janet Evanovich, Lucy Score, Meghan Quinn, Nadia Lee, Carolyn Brown, Lilian Moore, Emily Henry, Tessa Bailey, Lilac Mills, Sally Thorne, Camilla Isley, Julia Kent, Helen Hunting, Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes Topics: Romantic Comedy, Rom Com, Rich Heroes, Millionaire Heroes, Contemporary Romance, Funny Romance, Humorous Romance, Urban Romance, Wealthy Hero, USA Today Author, CEO Romance, City Romance, Lighthearted Romance, Event Planner
Publisher: Elizabeth Watson
ISBN: 1950786919
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
FROM USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELIZA WATSON! A Reviewer Top Pick, Night Owl Romance--"There is definitely not a dull moment between the pages of 'Til Death Do Us Part." Six months ago, Cassidy Baldwin was among Milwaukee’s leading wedding planners, until she became the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. Now the only job she can land is organizing over-the-top themed funerals for her best friend’s family business. When the city’s most affluent and eccentric philanthropist dies, Cassidy is hired to fulfill the woman’s deathbed wish: find a wife for her playboy nephew, Ryan Mitchell. Ryan has always avoided the spotlight, and he’s not thrilled about the media attention spawned by this final decree. However, if he doesn’t marry within the year, his aunt’s quirky staff will lose their home and livelihoods. Ryan plans to have Cassidy find him a temporary wife, so he can save the estate and his pseudo family. She’s determined to find him a soul mate, since marrying off the city’s most eligible bachelor would enable Cassidy to launch a new matchmaking career and rebuild her reputation. After spending time with Ryan, Cassidy believes he isn’t the arrogant and insensitive playboy the media makes him out to be. Until she discovers he plans to divorce his perfect match, which might involve Cassidy in yet another scandal! If Ryan is capable of protecting and loving his aunt’s staff, will he one day be able to open his heart and marry for love? Readers also read books by the following authors: Janet Evanovich, Lucy Score, Meghan Quinn, Nadia Lee, Carolyn Brown, Lilian Moore, Emily Henry, Tessa Bailey, Lilac Mills, Sally Thorne, Camilla Isley, Julia Kent, Helen Hunting, Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes Topics: Romantic Comedy, Rom Com, Rich Heroes, Millionaire Heroes, Contemporary Romance, Funny Romance, Humorous Romance, Urban Romance, Wealthy Hero, USA Today Author, CEO Romance, City Romance, Lighthearted Romance, Event Planner
'Til Death Do Us Part
Author: Eliza Daly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150720521X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Life and death matters take on a whole new twist when a quirky funeral planner tries her hand at matchmaking for a prominent playboy. Six months ago, Cassidy Baldwin was among Milwaukee’s leading wedding planners, until she became the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. Now the only job she can land is organizing over-the-top themed funerals for her best friend’s family business. Then the city’s most affluent and eccentric philanthropist dies, and Cassidy is hired to fulfill the woman’s deathbed wish: find a wife for her playboy nephew, Ryan Mitchell. Ryan’s always avoided the spotlight, and he’s not thrilled by the media attention spawned by this final decree. If he doesn’t marry within the year, however, his aunt’s quirky staff will lose their home and livelihood. So he wants Cassidy to find him a Ms. Right Now that he can ultimately divorce, but she’s determined to find him a true soul mate since the right match could launch a new matchmaking career for her. Too bad she seems to understand him better than any of the potential brides she’s found. Is it worth risking a real chance at love to arrange a fake wedding? Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150720521X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Life and death matters take on a whole new twist when a quirky funeral planner tries her hand at matchmaking for a prominent playboy. Six months ago, Cassidy Baldwin was among Milwaukee’s leading wedding planners, until she became the scapegoat for a corporate scandal. Now the only job she can land is organizing over-the-top themed funerals for her best friend’s family business. Then the city’s most affluent and eccentric philanthropist dies, and Cassidy is hired to fulfill the woman’s deathbed wish: find a wife for her playboy nephew, Ryan Mitchell. Ryan’s always avoided the spotlight, and he’s not thrilled by the media attention spawned by this final decree. If he doesn’t marry within the year, however, his aunt’s quirky staff will lose their home and livelihood. So he wants Cassidy to find him a Ms. Right Now that he can ultimately divorce, but she’s determined to find him a true soul mate since the right match could launch a new matchmaking career for her. Too bad she seems to understand him better than any of the potential brides she’s found. Is it worth risking a real chance at love to arrange a fake wedding? Sensuality Level: Behind Closed Doors
Till Death Do Us Part
Author: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198214470X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive? Ten years ago, June’s beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient, supportive man named Kyle. She’s excited to finally begin a new chapter in her life and start a family. But out of the blue, she sees him—Josh, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt June carries about finally moving on, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place? June tries to forget about this vision, chalking it up to grief and nerves, but soon enough, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who’s already worried she hasn’t quite left her past behind, June secretly flies to Napa for answers. But she’s not prepared for all the secrets she’s about to unlock because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198214470X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The author of The Girls Are All So Nice Here returns with a thriller set in the vineyards of Napa Valley that asks: what happens when the husband you thought died years ago shows up alive? Ten years ago, June’s beloved husband drowned on their honeymoon, his body never found. Now, a decade later, June is finally ready to move on. She owns a natural wine bar in Brooklyn and is engaged to a patient, supportive man named Kyle. She’s excited to finally begin a new chapter in her life and start a family. But out of the blue, she sees him—Josh, her first husband. Is this just a hallucination from the guilt June carries about finally moving on, or is it possible that her husband never died in the first place? June tries to forget about this vision, chalking it up to grief and nerves, but soon enough, she stumbles across a website for a winery in Napa, and the owner in the photo is identical to her dead husband. With her upcoming wedding looming and a fiancé who’s already worried she hasn’t quite left her past behind, June secretly flies to Napa for answers. But she’s not prepared for all the secrets she’s about to unlock because everything she thought she knew about her first love is a lie.
Till Death Do Us Part
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728261147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This "[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle...Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Who can I trust?" Love-sick Dick Markham is reeling. He's set to marry Lesley Grant—a woman whom he learns is not who she appears to be. She seems to have been associated with three poisonings, all of which were in locked rooms. Another crime has been committed and we will watch the great Dr. Fell investigate through Markham's watchful eyes. That night the enigmatic fortune teller—and chief accuser—is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large. First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728261147
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
This "[Is a] nail-biting locked room puzzle...Carr's gift for creating a creepy atmosphere again meshes with a brilliantly constructed and eminently fair whodunit." — Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Who can I trust?" Love-sick Dick Markham is reeling. He's set to marry Lesley Grant—a woman whom he learns is not who she appears to be. She seems to have been associated with three poisonings, all of which were in locked rooms. Another crime has been committed and we will watch the great Dr. Fell investigate through Markham's watchful eyes. That night the enigmatic fortune teller—and chief accuser—is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to examine the perplexing evidence and match wits with a meticulous killer at large. First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.
The Funeral Casino
Author: Alan Klima
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when a freewheeling market of illegal "massacre-imagery" videos blossomed in Bangkok on the very site where, days earlier, for the third time in two decades, a military-controlled government had killed scores of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex." Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized, and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence, and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the new world order.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400824966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age. Setting his book within Thailand's pro-democracy movement and the street massacres that accompanied it, Alan Klima offers a strikingly original interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. The fieldwork for the book began in 1992, when a freewheeling market of illegal "massacre-imagery" videos blossomed in Bangkok on the very site where, days earlier, for the third time in two decades, a military-controlled government had killed scores of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. Such killings and their subsequent representation have lent force to Thailand's transition from military control to a "media-financial complex." Probing the ways in which death is marketed, visualized, and remembered through practices both local and global, Klima inverts conventional relationships between ethnography and theory through a compelling narrative that reveals a surprising new direction available to anthropology and critical theory. Ethnography here engages with the philosophy of activism and the politics of memory, media representation of violence, and globalization. In focusing on the particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present, this book unveils a vivid and haunting picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the new world order.