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Thomas Lynch (1)

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Thomas Lynch's stories, poems, and essays have appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times, and elsewhere. His first collection of essays, The Undertaking, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lynch keeps homes in Michigan and Moveen, West Clare, Ireland. — biography from The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be… (more)

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Works by Thomas Lynch

The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 954 copies, 20 reviews

Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality 416 copies, 3 reviews

Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans 132 copies, 1 review

Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories 106 copies, 22 reviews

The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care 88 copies, 2 reviews

Still Life in Milford: Poems 80 copies, 2 reviews

The Depositions: New and Selected Essays on Being and Ceasing to Be 34 copies, 1 review

Skating with Heather Grace 28 copies, 1 review

Walking Papers: Poems 27 copies

Grimalkin and Other Poems 27 copies

The Sin-eater: A Breviary 17 copies, 1 review

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Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 288 copies, 4 reviews

The Bastard on the Couch: 27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings… (Contributor) 175 copies, 7 reviews

Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970… (Contributor) 167 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (Contributor) 139 copies, 2 reviews

The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (Contributor) 114 copies, 5 reviews

The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 (Contributor) 84 copies, 4 reviews

Summer: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (Contributor) 36 copies, 2 reviews

A Good Man: Fathers and Sons in Poetry and Prose (Contributor) 19 copies, 1 review

New Poems from the 3rd Coast: Contemporary Michigan Poetry (Great Lakes… (Contributor) 13 copies

Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast (Great Lakes… (Contributor) 8 copies

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Detroit, Michigan, USA

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Brother Rice High School, Bloomfield, Michigan, USA

Wayne State University (mortuary science)

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Michigan Author Award (2001)

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