The Last Good Funeral of the Year - A Memoir

A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped his identity.

About the author

ED O'LOUGHLIN is an Irish-Canadian author and journalist. He is the author of three previous novels, including the Booker Prize-longlisted Not Untrue and Not Unkind, the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Minds of Winter, and the critically acclaimed Toploader. As a journalist, he reported from Africa for several newspapers, including the Irish Times and the Independent of London. He was later the Middle East correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne. Born in Toronto and raised in Ireland, he now lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.

Summary

A pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, mental health and the life events that have shaped his identity.

Additional text

The Last Good Funeral of the Year is intelligent, funny, profound, painfully honest, beautifully written, and powerfully moving. Ed O'Loughlin is a writer who does brilliantly everything he turns his hand to; it's no surprise to find that his memoir is so unforgettably good.

Product details

• Authors: Ed O'Loughlin, O'Loughlin Ed
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2022
• EAN: 9781529417067
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-1706-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Coping with mental health issues, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying