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The Futilitarians : our year of thinking, drinking, grieving, and reading / Anne Gisleson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 260 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316393904
  • 0316393908
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 976.3/35064 B 23
Contents:
January: All is vanity -- February: World of stone -- March: The belly of the whale -- April: The last suffer; or, The way of the crisis (via dolorosa) -- May: The dark wood -- June: Voices over water -- July: The least dead among us -- August: The metaphysical hangover -- September: The walled city -- October: The unwalled city -- November: Nineveh -- December: Sharing bread -- New Year's Eve: Tanks versus chickens.
Summary: A memoir of loss, friendship, and literature explores how the author and her husband, devastated by the deaths of family members and the loss of their home in Hurricane Katrina, established a reading group with friends who also endured difficult life setbacks.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Coffeyville Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Coffeyville Public Library Adult Books 976.3 GISLESON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38670101490080
Book Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction Fort Scott Public Library Adult Books 976.3 Gisl (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 35326000417590

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-260).

January: All is vanity -- February: World of stone -- March: The belly of the whale -- April: The last suffer; or, The way of the crisis (via dolorosa) -- May: The dark wood -- June: Voices over water -- July: The least dead among us -- August: The metaphysical hangover -- September: The walled city -- October: The unwalled city -- November: Nineveh -- December: Sharing bread -- New Year's Eve: Tanks versus chickens.

A memoir of loss, friendship, and literature explores how the author and her husband, devastated by the deaths of family members and the loss of their home in Hurricane Katrina, established a reading group with friends who also endured difficult life setbacks.

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