e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
O'Loughlin, Ed.
Subjects
O'Loughlin, Ed.
Authors, Irish -- Biography.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Journalists -- Ireland -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
Browse Catalog
by author:
O'Loughlin, Ed.
by title:
The last good funera...
by call number:
823.92 O52L
Search the Web
O'Loughlin, Ed.
O'Loughlin, Ed.
Authors, Irish -- Biography.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Journalists -- Ireland -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
MARC Display
The last good funeral of the year / Ed O'Loughlin.
by
O'Loughlin, Ed.
Anansi, 2022.
Call #:
823
.92
O52L
Subjects
O'Loughlin, Ed.
Authors, Irish -- Biography.
Authors, Canadian -- Biography.
Journalists -- Ireland -- Biography.
Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781487010607 (pbk)
Description:
196 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"From Ed O'Loughlin, author of Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Minds of Winter, a pensive and poignant recollection of love, loss, marriage, and the life events that have shaped his identity. Soon, the lockdown would start. People would die alone, without any proper ceremony. Charlotte's death would be washed away, the first drop in a downpour. Nobody knew it then, but hers would be the last good funeral of the year. It was February 2020 when Ed O'Loughlin unexpectedly heard that Charlotte, a friend from the old days, had just died young and before her time. He realized that he was being led to reappraise his life, his family, and his career as a foreign correspondent and novelist in a new, colder light. This search for meaning becomes the driving theme of O'Loughlin's year of confinement. The result is a haunting examination of the author's early life and love, the journalists and photographers with whom he covered wars in Africa and the Middle East, the suicide of his brother, his new work as an author, a family home on the edge of a graveyard, and the mysteries of memory, aging, and loss. He was suddenly faced with facts that he had been ignoring, that he was getting old, that he wasn't what he used to be, that his imagination, always over-active, had at some point reversed its direction, switching production from dreams to regrets. Moving, funny, and searingly honest, The Last Good Funeral of the Year takes the reader on a circular journey from present to past and back to the present: 'Could any true story end any other way?'"--Publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
823.92 O52L
Adult books
Checked out
Jun 12, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Tantallon Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
823.92 O52L
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.