Title My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die / Kevin Toolis.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Da Capo Press, Hachette Book Group, 2017.
	©2017

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Location	Call No.	Status
Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department	393.9 TOO	Check Shelf
West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction	306.9 TOOLIS	Check Shelf

Edition	First U.S. edition.
Description	275 pages ; 22 cm
Contents	Mortalities -- Whispers -- Origins -- Voices -- Unravellings -- Intimations -- Exiles -- Ruins -- Catastrophes -- Changelings -- Drifts -- Hades -- Gestations -- Tombs -- Gatherings -- Forebodings -- Silences -- Fragments -- Landscapes -- Vigils -- Remains -- Burdens -- Keening -- Rites -- How to love, live and die.
Summary	"An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death." --Amazon.
Subject	Toolis, Kevin -- Family.
	Wake services -- Ireland.
	Death.
	Mourning customs -- Ireland.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement.
	Death -- Social aspects.
	Ireland.
	Death. (OCoLC)fst00888613
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Mourning customs. (OCoLC)fst01028403
	Wake services. (OCoLC)fst01169983
	Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
Genre/Form	Biographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
ISBN	9780306921469 (hardcover)
	0306921464 (hardcover)
	9780306921452 (ebook)
	0306921456
	9780306921452

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