My Father's Wake : How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die de Toolis, Kevin - 2017

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 275pp. A book on the culture of grief and death in which writer and filmmaker Kevin Toolis gives an intimate eye-witness account of the death and wake of his father, and explores the wider history of the Irish Wake. He shows how we too can find a better way to deal with our mortality, by living and loving in the acceptance of death.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8.75 x 5.5 inches.