Death's Door Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study by Gilbert, Sandra M - 2006

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2006-01-16. Hardcover. Used: Good.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2006-01-16. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed. Third printing. SIGNED and dated, at a PEN party, by Sandra Gilbert on the half title page. Laid in is promotional material for this book (and a 3rd printing?). The volume is lightly bumped on the spine ends and the last few leaves have some soft corner creases. The unclipped dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, is fine.

New York: W.W. Norton. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2005. 1st. hardcover. 8vo, 580 pp. .

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006-01-16. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very good. Very good hard cover edition with very good dust jacket. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 580 pages.

US: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc, 2007. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get." -Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. Does death change;and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the catastrophe of 9/11 alter our modes of mourning? And are there at the same time aspects of grief that barely change from age to age? Seneca wrote, "Anyone can stop a man's life but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." This inevitability has left… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover 2006 edition. Dust jacket and boards in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. .

U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Stated First Ed.. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 580 pages, clean and tight..

W. W. Norton & Company, 2006-01-16. Hardcover. Very Good. Ex-library copy, has library marking and stamps.