Will the circle be unbroken? Reflections on death, rebirth, and hunger for a faith. (Books In Review: living with death).(Review)
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Ivins, Molly
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith By Studs Terkel. New Press, 407 pages, $25.95
STUDS TERKEL, THAT NATIONAL treasure, has provided us another gift in Will the Circle Be Unbroken? As Studs says (to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever called him "Mr. Terkel"), when you're going on 89, death is something you think about a lot. But this is the book that he thought he'd never produce: "It was too big for me; too abstract. It was more in the domain of the metaphysician or the minister," he writes. "My ...
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