The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death
(2012)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
973/LEPORE,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 973/LEPORE,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xxxiii, 282 pages ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780307592996, 0307592995
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso

Introduction: The mansion of happiness -- Hatched -- Baby good -- The children's room -- All about erections -- Mr. Marriage -- Happiness minutes -- Confessions of an amateur mother -- Happy old age -- The gate of heaven -- Resurrection -- Last words -- A chronology

A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave

"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso

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