The Big Book of the Dead

Written by Marion Winik

Narrated by Marion Winik

Marion Winik is esteemed for bringing humor and wit to that most unavoidable of subjects: death. At last, Winik's critically acclaimed, cult favorites Glen Rock and Baltimore Book of the Dead have been carefully combined in their proper order, revealing more clearly than ever before the character hidden throughout these stories: Winik herself.

In The Big Book of the Dead, Winik arranges her arresting portraits of the dead chronologically, spanning "Friends of My Youth, Mostly in New Jersey 1958-1978," "The Austin Years, Including New Orleans 1977-2009," "We Were Ten Years in Pennsylvania 1999-2009," and "Love in the Time of Baltimore 2009-2018." Featuring twelve additional vignettes-including remembrances of the victims of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting and Philip Roth, The Big Book of the Dead continues Winik's work as an empathic chronicler of life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Sep 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781400171699

Reviews for The Big Book of the Dead

[viviennestrauss · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I couldn't stop reading this - one moving obituary after another. Some tinged with a bit of humor, many left me teary-eyed.

[exfed_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Winik sure knows or knows of a lot of people that have died. Some stories were interesting, others only so-so.