Will the Circle be Unbroken? by Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel explores the ultimate human experience, that of death and the possibility of life afterward. Death is the one experience we all share but cannot know. In this book, a wide range of people address that final experience and its impact on the present in which we live. As well as the elderly and sick, Terkel uses his talent to draw on the experiences of those who work closely with the dying - paramedics, police, firefighters, doctors and the recently bereaved. In talking about the ultimate and unknowable culmination of our lives, these people give voice to their deepest beliefs and hopes, reflecting on the lives they have led and what still lies before them.
Thirty years ago Gore Vidal suggested to Studs Terkel that death would be a good subject for oral history; it's a subject which, after all, nobody can talk about with any genuine authorityWill the Circle be Unbroken is the result - Terkel has compiled the views and experiences of 63 death professionals (doctors, nurses, soldiers, detectives, murderers) and death amateurs (all of us, death professionals included). For all the variety of life-experience that it contains, the book is reassuringly repetitive; we all fear much the same thing and cope with it in much the same way. A poignant contribution to the neglected literature of death that is also, of course, a handbook to living well, a guide to making the most of death's long prelude.
Studs Terkel is the author of many books of oral history, including Working and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Good War. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781862075115 |
| ISBN 10 | 1862075115 |
| Title | Will the Circle be Unbroken? |
| Author | Studs Terkel |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2002-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
| Prizes | Winner of MIND Book of the Year/Allen Lane Award 2003 |
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