Description
Ed is a weeper: a card-carrying member of an eccentric union who is hired to cry at funerals, wakes, and burials. It's an odd job, but his services are sorely needed these days, as the town, the region, the country, have weathered so much death and disaster that the so-called normals have gone numb. Still, years of mourning can wear a man down. The losses pile up and the passion peters out. Even Ed-consummate pro, cowboy poet, seasoned performer!-has trouble bringing forth real tears these days. Then a strange kid-scrawny, nameless, parentless, without past or possessions-comes to town, and something bursts open. Strange forces sweep over the blasted landscape: an onslaught of unbidden feelings, unfamiliar feelings, long since buried. A surreal story of mourning and messiahs, deserts and droughts, reverends and junkies, miracles and mass hysteria, the lure of despair and the solace of friendship, Peter Mendelsund's Weepers is a novel for this age of anesthesia and anger, about what happens when the scale of loss exceeds our capacity to feel it, and what comes after.
A messianic tale about a group of professional mourners-"sweetly wistful . . . funny and forlorn in equal measure" (The Wall Street Journal).
About the Author
Peter Mendelsund is the author of seven books, including the novels The Delivery and Same Same, as well as the nonfiction works What We See When We Read, Cover, The Look of the Book, and the memoir Exhibitionist. A former designer and a recovering classical pianist, Mendelsund is also the creative director and a contributor at The Atlantic.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250437983
Author Peter Mendelsund
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Picador USA
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 259g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 21mm
A messianic tale about a group of professional mourners-"sweetly wistful . . . funny and forlorn in equal measure" (The Wall Street Journal).
About the Author
Peter Mendelsund is the author of seven books, including the novels The Delivery and Same Same, as well as the nonfiction works What We See When We Read, Cover, The Look of the Book, and the memoir Exhibitionist. A former designer and a recovering classical pianist, Mendelsund is also the creative director and a contributor at The Atlantic.
Book Information
ISBN 9781250437983
Author Peter Mendelsund
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Picador USA
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 259g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 135mm * 21mm
