- Title:
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Sweet Sorrow
- Written by:
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Mark Wakely
- Read by:
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Grant Cartwright
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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5
- Duration:
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5 hours 34 minutes
- Published:
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April 01 2010
- Available Date:
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April 01 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781742338279
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Psychology; Religious
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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"Books such as Mark Wakely's Sweet Sorrow are long overdue in presenting honest examination of what it means to die in contemporary Australia."
The Courier Mail
A beginner's guide to death.
This remarkable book - at times heartbreaking, at times humorous - is dazzling for its profound honesty. Like most of us, Mark Wakely had always put death in the too-hard basket. Around death he was painfully awkward, strangely self-conscious: death-shy. He was curiously distanced from his own parents' deaths.
Thirty years later, he went on a journey to confront one of the most intensely personal yet universal experiences: our own mortality. With Mark as our guide, we are introduced to morticians and embalmers, rabbis and doctors, coffin makers and gravediggers. He reveals the fashions and the fads, the rituals and the deep emotion in a heartfelt and whimsical investigation into this timeless subject. All you need to pack for the trip is a curiosity about life.