{"product_id":"doomed-and-famous-selected-obituaries-hardcover","title":"Doomed and Famous: Selected Obituaries - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdrian Dannatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHugo Guinness\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDoomed and Famous\u003c\/i\u003e, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This book is a selection of some of the best--meaning most improbable--of these miniature biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are arranged an almost fictive cast of characters including an imaginary Sephardic count in Wisconsin, a sadomasochist collector of the world's rarest clocks, a discrete Cuban connoisseur of invisibility, an alcoholic novelist in Rio, a Warhol Superstar gone wrong, a leading downtown Manhattan dominatrix, a conceptual artist who blew up a museum, and many others. Dannatt terminates this volume with his own putative extinction, performing the difficult if not dangerous task of penning his personal life history and ultimate end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdrian Dannatt is a writer, curator, editor and artist. His fiction and poetry has been published in anthologies including\u003ci\u003e Best British Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePEN New Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e and his books include the \u003ci\u003eU.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWim Delvoye\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently \u003ci\u003eLes Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.6 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772779528480,"sku":"9780997567472","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1068b289c189e45f2f238a33877f86ad.webp?v=1780414054","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/doomed-and-famous-selected-obituaries-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}