{"product_id":"doomed-and-famous-isbn-9780997567472","title":"Doomed and Famous","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric.\u003c\/b\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\"The best moments lie in Dannatt’s musings on death itself, as, in death, “everything comes together as one giant, cosmic anecdote.” Dannatt’s collection is easy to dip into and difficult to put down.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If I were in charge of high school curricula, I’d make \u003ci\u003eDoomed and Famous\u003c\/i\u003e required reading, to empower eccentric young souls.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kathelin Grey, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDoomed and Famous\u003c\/i\u003e is a rare pleasure. A collection of obituaries mainly (but not always) of men, whose unusual lives Dannatt documents with a zealous commitment to the brief, the suicidal, the addicted, the long-lived, the extraordinarily rich, the flamboyant, the insouciantly poor, the innately glamorous and the artistic.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—Perspective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“an enjoyable celebration of eccentricity, frequently tinged with melancholy”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Henry Hitchings, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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.","brand":"Sequence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302784192741,"sku":"NP9780997567472","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780997567472.jpg?v=1767725545","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/doomed-and-famous-isbn-9780997567472","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}