Obit.
Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People
Who Led Extraordinary Lives
Author: James Sheeler
Media: Hardback
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0-87108-943-2
Pages: 256 Size: 5.5 x 8.5
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“Obit. is a collection of narrative obituaries that bring to life the recently deceased. Sheeler gets to the heart of each of his subjects, offering us a feast of lives well-lived: some mundane, some comic, and, yes, some tragic, but all hell-bent on fulfillment of their time in this world.”
–Peter Warzel, Rocky Mountain News
“Most of the people in this book will die before the fifth paragraph,” Jim Sheeler informs us in the introduction to Obit. Obituary writers are a dying breed. Only a handful of papers in the United States have a reporter out on the beat, finding people in the community whose lives they feel should be profiled and then spending hours going through shoeboxes and talking to people and fact-checking anecdotes and practical jokes. There is an art to the form, and Sheeler is one of the best contemporary practitioners in the United States.
About the Author
Jim Sheeler was a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature writer for the Rocky Mountain News, where he worked the obituary beat for years. Obit. is a sampling of his work there.
