The Big Book of the Dead, Marion Winik
The Big Book of the Dead, Marion Winik
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The Big Book of the Dead

Author: Marion Winik

Narrator: Marion Winik

Unabridged: 4 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/17/2019


Synopsis

Marion Winik is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites Glen Rock and Baltimore Book of the Dead have been carefully combined in their proper order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself.

In The Big Book of the Dead, Winik arranges her arresting portraits of the dead chronologically, spanning "Friends of My Youth, Mostly in New Jersey 1958–1978," "The Austin Years, Including New Orleans 1977–2009," "We Were Ten Years in Pennsylvania 1999–2009," and "Love in the Time of Baltimore 2009–2018." Featuring twelve additional vignettes—including remembrances of the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting and Philip Roth, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathic chronicler of life.

About Marion Winik

Marion Winik is the author of First Comes Love, The Baltimore Book of the Dead, and eight other books. She writes the Bohemian Rhapsody column at BaltimoreFishbowl.com, and is the host of Baltimore WYPR's The Weekly Reader. Marion reviews books for Newsday, People, and Kirkus Reviews and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Baltimore.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on April 27, 2020

I listened to Marion Winik's book The Big Book of the Dead on Audible. It is really great to hear her unique voice reading her amazing written language. She writes about people she has known who have affected her life who have died. About grief, but really about love, and seeing people, and recogniz......more

Goodreads review by Nina on May 09, 2020

I read through this like a poetry collection - piece by piece. A beautiful homage to the people that made up Winik’s life and what I thought of as highly original. Some parts resonated more with me than others, but all were interesting......more

Goodreads review by Jillian on April 12, 2020

This book is beautifully written. It feels like a celebration of life, while taking a sober look at death. I have already recommended to many of my friends to read!......more

Goodreads review by Jenny on December 01, 2022

Although I thought this was an excellent premise at first, a fter reading all 289 pages of death after death, I decided this book was a little too much for me. I felt incredibly sad and needed a break. I think I will go read another book with a sentient octopus in it to make myself feel better.......more

Goodreads review by Ghazal on October 06, 2020

When you are dealing with grief, there is no other person, no matter how much they love you, that can help. Not even distract you for an hour. The only people I could turn to were those who are living it; who are carrying this pain around, in different forms. Reading these pages, for the first time i......more