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Reviewed on February 15, 2011
Editors Shields (The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead) and Morrow (editor, Conjunctions; The Diviner's Tale) recruited 20 writers—from the well known, e.g., Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Dillard, and Diane Ackerman, to the less familiar—to contribute these diverse essays on death. The essays consider death in its various forms and explore the diverse human emotions elicited when confront...Log In or Sign Up to Read More