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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: truth about death
    sub title: and other stories
  title info:
    title: Short stories. Selections
  name:
    name part: Hellenga, Robert
    name part: 1941-2020
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 291 pages ; 22 cm
  abstract: "The Truth About Death, the title novella of this virtuosic collection, is a masterpiece of sardonic humor that confronts Death head on and emerges bloody but unbowed. Simon, an undertaker, embalms his father and is facing his own death. Louisa, Simon's mother, makes peace with her husband over his dead body in a cooler in the basement of the funeral home. Simon contemplates the mystery of death over a plate of spaghetti cacio e pepe in Rome with an Italian undertaker. The dog, Maya who works as a greeter at the funeral home where she comforts those who are grieving hardest eventually makes the truth about death known to Elizabeth, Simon's wife. New Yorker cartoons keep the family laughing during the most difficult months, so Simon decides to submit his own (included here), leading Elizabeth to seek further clarification in a meeting with the New Yorker cartoon editor, Bob Mankoff, at his office. The serious issues cleverly addressed in The Truth About Death are touched with warmth, humor, and deep feeling in the eight "Other Stories," not by invoking comforting fairy tales but by accepting the fact that death and grief are part of the natural order of things. As Maya explains to Elizabeth, "It's just the way things are.""--
  table of contents: The truth about death -- A Christmas letter -- For sale -- The second coming -- Snapshots of Aphrodite -- I speak a little French -- How to write a memoir -- The mountains of light -- Pockets of silence.
  note: by Robert Hellenga.
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Short Stories (single author)
  subject:
    topic: Short stories
  classification: PS3558.E4753 A6 2016
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC029000
  identifier: 9781632862914
  identifier: 1632862913
  identifier: 9781632862921
  identifier: 2015031690
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150821
    record change date: 20210320063411.0
    record identifier: in00003778378
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng