The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died Contributor(s): Largo, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061231665 ISBN-13: 9780061231667 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2007 Annotation: This macabre, funny, off-beat follow-up to "Final Exits" is an authoritative and luridly compelling collection that presents the true circumstances behind the deaths of famous figures from Aeschylus to Elvis. Illustrated. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Death & Dying - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2008272114 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 5.6" W x 9.14" (0.65 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying |
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Publisher Description: No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker--though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished.
Michael Largo, the man who illuminated readers on the myriad ways of death in Final Exits, has compiled a fascinating, off-beat, and darkly humorous necrology that provides the grim, often outrageous details about the passing of influential persons. Meticulously researched--employing archaeological records, published obituaries, official documents, and forensic evidence--this authoritative, one-of-a-kind reference presents the unabashed truth about a multitude of celebrity deaths, while examining the various deeds, misdeeds, and lifestyle quirks that hastened the demise and determined the departed's role in history and popular myth. The Portable Obituary has the skinny on what made our late icons--whether through overindulgence or neglect: on the john, in the sack, or in some spectacular accident--what they are today: dead |
Contributor Bio(s): Largo, Michael: - Michael Largo is the author of The Big, Bad Book of Beasts; God's Lunatics; Genius and Heroin; and the Bram Stoker Award-winning Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die, as well as three novels. He and his family live in Florida with their dog, two turtles, a parrot, two canaries, and a tank of fish. |