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We'll be the last ones to let you down : memoir of a gravedigger's daughter / Rachael Hanel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanel, Rachael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cemeteries--Minnesota--Biography.
- Cemeteries.
- Grave digging--Minnesota--Biography.
- Grave digging.
- Women authors, American--Biography.
- Women authors, American.
- Hanel, Rachael.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book presents the unique, moving perspective of a gravedigger's daughter and her lifelong relationship with death. It is also a masterful meditation on the living elements of our cemeteries: our neighbors, friends, and families and how these things come together in the eyes of a young girl whose childhood is suffused with death and the wonder of the living.
- Contents:
- We'll be the last ones to let you down
- Digger O'Dell
- In the midst of life we are in death
- Stormy weather
- Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints
- Break the plow
- As you think, you travel
- When beauty dies
- A gossamer world
- Helter skelter
- Opening night
- The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
- What was left behind.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8683-1
- OCLC:
- 834143563
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