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<p><P>Heart-rending stories of life and death&#58; a debut fiction collection by the award-winning author of <b>The Undertaking</b>.</p><h3>The Barnes & Noble Review</h3><p><P><b>Sex and death</b> . . . are the only subjects worth thinking about, a widowed poetry professor instructs her students in one of the stories filled with both in Thomas Lynch's <i>Apparition and Late Fictions</i>. Lynch, a Michigan funeral director and poet, cited the same Yeats assertion, clearly a touchstone for him, in his wonderful book of personal essays about the dismal trade, <i>The Undertaking</i><i> </i>(1997)<i>. </i>Like his essays, Lynch's fiction also concerns love and grief, which share the one body. His characters are embalmers, casket salesmen, poets, ministers, fishing guides, and the widowed professor whose creepy infatuation with a beautiful teenager at a fancy Mackinac Island resort evokes Thomas Mann's <i>Death in Venice</i><i>. </i>They mourn husbands, wives, parents, and young girls who are gone but not forgotten. Less fondly, they also remember exes, for whom A little Good Riddance goes a long way.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>The small-town assistant pastor in the title novella discovers his t

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Author

Lynch, Thomas

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393042078

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.63 / 5 (140 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14