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How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences

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In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.
 

List of contents










Author’s Note    
Ultima Thule    

Fate 1
Clotho
spins the thread of life

The Eternal Reign of Miss Route 17    
13 Ways of Surviving New Jersey    
Miss Route 17 Refuses to Grow Old    
The Three Fates: How Much Is the Moon Worth?     
The Remarkable Death-Defying Exploits of Miss Route 17    
Until My Number Comes Up    
Requiem for a Qwertyist    
My Death in the Family    
The Three Fates: Drawing the Shades    
A Member of the Wedding    

Fate 2
Lachesis
measures the thread of life to determine how long you live

The Sick Hypochondriac    
The Three Fates: On Tedium    
The Safe Side    
My Life as a Thanatologist    
The Janet Leigh Variations    
The Summer of Hate and Death    
Here Be Human Dragons    
Miss Route 17’s Near-Death Experience under the Boardwalk at the New Jersey Shore    
Sigilisms of Miss Route 17’s Many Hidden Talents    
Death Comes for the Poet    
Flirting with the Butcher    
The Three Fates and the Barefoot Angels    

Fate 3
Atropos
cuts the thread of life with a pair of shears to decide how someone dies

At the Terminal Gate    
Miss Route 17’s Own Graceland    
Memorabilia: My Guardian Devils and the Phantom of the Opera Gloves    
The Three Fates: When You Go    
Of Chrysanthemums, Tupperware, Cremated Remains, and FedEx-ing to the Great Beyond    
Miss Route 17’s Blue Period    
The Three Fates: Filling in the Blanks    
On the Reliance of Verbs to Survive Death    
The Queen of Panmnesia    

Acknowledgments    
Notes    
 


About the author










Sue William Silverman is a memoirist, poet, and teacher of writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has published several books, including Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You; Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey through Sexual AddictionThe Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew (Nebraska, 2014); and Fearless Confessions: A Writer’s Guide to Memoir.
 

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In these thematically linked pieces, Sue William Silverman explores the fear of death, and her desire to survive it, through gallows humor, realism, and speculation. Although defeating death is physically impossible, language, commemoration, and metaphor can offer slivers of transcendent immortality.

Product details

Authors Sue William Silverman
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.03.2020
 
EAN 9781496214096
ISBN 978-1-4962-1409-6
No. of pages 277
Series American Lives
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries

Humor, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Biography / Autobiography, HUMOR / Form / Essays

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