Book
The mansion of happiness : a history of life and death
Edition
1st ed.
Publication Information
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Physical Description
xxxiii, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
Added Uniform Title
Summary
A history of American ideas about life and death from before the cradle to beyond the grave.
Notes
"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
"Parts of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker"--T.p. verso.
Contents
- Introduction: The Mansion of Happiness
- Hatched
- Baby Food
- The Children's Room
- All about Erections
- Mr. Marriage
- Happiness Minutes
- Confessions of an Amateur Mother
- Happy Old Age
- The Gate of Heaven
- Resurrection
- Last Words
- A Chronology.
Subjects
- Politics and culture > United States > History.
- Popular culture > United States > History.
- Life > Social aspects > United States > History.
- Life (Biology) > Social aspects > United States > History.
- Life cycle, Human > Social aspects > United States > History.
- Death > Social aspects > United States > History.
- Happiness > Social aspects > United States > History.
- United States > Social life and customs.
- United States > Social conditions.
- United States > Intellectual life.