Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries Dannatt Adrian
Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries Dannatt Adrian An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration…
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Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries Dannatt Adrian
An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality.
This book is a selection of some of the best--meaning most improbable--of these miniature biographies.Here are arranged an almost fictive cast of characters including an Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences.
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