What A Way To Go
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Death, it turns out, has a darkly comic imagination all its own. What a Way to Go is a meticulously researched compendium of the most surprising, bizarre, comical, fantastic, grotesque, ludicrous, and extraordinary deaths ever recorded throughout human history — a cabinet of mortal curiosities that ranges from the tragically absurd to the jaw-droppingly improbable. With dry wit and an encyclopaedic appetite for the macabre, Bowler and Green chronicle the countless ways in which fate has conspired to bring about endings that no novelist would dare invent, presenting each account with the deadpan precision of seasoned chroniclers of human folly. The book sits at a delicious intersection of dark humour and social history, illustrating how death — stripped of solemnity — becomes a remarkably vivid lens through which to view human vanity, misfortune, and sheer bad luck. Written with a light but authoritative touch, the collection argues implicitly that no life, however grand or humble, is immune to an undignified exit. For anyone who has ever suspected that the universe has a sense of humour — albeit a rather grim one — this anthology offers irresistible, if sobering, proof.
Author: Peter Bowler & Jonathon Green
Format: Paperback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Death, it turns out, has a darkly comic imagination all its own. What a Way to Go is a meticulously researched compendium of the most surprising, bizarre, comical, fantastic, grotesque, ludicrous, and extraordinary deaths ever recorded throughout human history — a cabinet of mortal curiosities that ranges from the tragically absurd to the jaw-droppingly improbable. With dry wit and an encyclopaedic appetite for the macabre, Bowler and Green chronicle the countless ways in which fate has conspired to bring about endings that no novelist would dare invent, presenting each account with the deadpan precision of seasoned chroniclers of human folly. The book sits at a delicious intersection of dark humour and social history, illustrating how death — stripped of solemnity — becomes a remarkably vivid lens through which to view human vanity, misfortune, and sheer bad luck. Written with a light but authoritative touch, the collection argues implicitly that no life, however grand or humble, is immune to an undignified exit. For anyone who has ever suspected that the universe has a sense of humour — albeit a rather grim one — this anthology offers irresistible, if sobering, proof.