{"product_id":"2026200017441-secondhand-what-a-way-to-go","title":"What A Way To Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath, 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.\n\nThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210270777563,"sku":"2026200017441-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/457e74fa-3401-4e59-a373-03ce46422773.png?v=1788268498","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017441-secondhand-what-a-way-to-go","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}