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The Walmart Book of the Dead Paperback – Oct. 26 2017

by Lucy Biederman (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
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As for who reads this book

And who follows its spells

I know your name

You will not die after your death

In Walmart

You will not perish forever

For I know your name

So begins this darkly comic incantation on the gods and scourges of the 21st century. The Walmart Book of the Dead was inspired by the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, funerary texts with accompanying illustrations containing spells to preserve the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife. In Lucy Biederman's version, shoplifters, grifters, drifters, and hustlers, desirous children, greeters, would-be Marxists, wolves, and circuit court judges wander Walmart unknowingly consigned to their afterlives.

"This BOOK is for the dark hours, the seam that ties the end of the evening to sunrise, when the bad, wrong things people do in and around Walmart are a hospital infection, red Rit dye in a load of whites, a gun in a classroom: by the time the problem is identified, it's already ruined everything."

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  1. Print length
    70 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Vine Leaves Press
  4. Publication date
    Oct. 26 2017
  5. Dimensions
    11.1 x 0.38 x 17.78 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1925417573
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1925417579
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"A vastly imagined Wonderbook--fearsome, hilarious, familiar and arcane--in which a brilliantly savaged Walmart, both a temple and a tomb, spawns an epidemic of pharonic proportions, exhausting nothing less than everything. An extraordinary experience." Rikki Ducornet, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, author of Brightfellow and The Deep Zoo

"In a series of librettos for the end times, a compilation of nearly operatic extent, Lucy Biederman's stage in The Walmart Book of the Dead is the size of the world's biggest box-store wherein miles of product attempt to dwarf the lonely figures who journey through its forsaken aisles like refugees from a Denis Johnson fever dream singing their apologetics and choking confusions, insincerities and blunt wonderments, songs of tedium, choking confessions, proprieties of the herd, and much more, arias rising to honor the supremely banal pathos of contemporary post-existence, each song haunting, brief, yet interwoven into a collective performance of current afterlife, funereal yet bright beyond vision. An homage to capitalism." Skip Fox, author of wired to zone and Sheer Indefinite

About the Author

Lucy Biederman is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette and an MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. She has written four chapbooks of poetry, and her short stories, essays, and poems have appeared recently in Bat City Review, The Collagist, AGNI, Ploughshares, Web Conjunctions, and Pleiades. Her scholarship, which has been published in The Henry James Review, Women's Studies, and elsewhere, focuses on how contemporary American women writers interpret their literary forebears. She shops at Walmart. Visit Lucy online: lucybiederman.wordpress.com

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vine Leaves Press (Oct. 26 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 70 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1925417573
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1925417579
  • Item weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 kg
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.1 x 0.38 x 17.78 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 45 ratings

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Liese A. Ricketts
5.0 out of 5 stars The best part is that she is a young author so ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
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When Ms. Biederman writes, I am transported to a space unlike any other, one lush with mystery and magic, yet grounded, mired in the quotidian. A marvel of a book. That this book is required reading at Princeton for Advanced Creative Writing is no surprise, no surprise at all. The best part is that she is a young author so we can expect more and more.
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Laura
5.0 out of 5 stars A quick and engaging read!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2017
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Fantastic concept, executed beautifully. It's a little jarring to read stories about characters which suggest the American South--returned war vets shopping for firearms in a Walmart, for instance--rendered in Australian Standard English. It's remarkable that Vine Leaves Press (from Australia) acquired this, I suppose. But once I got used to the spellings and styles on the page, I was riveted by this vignette collection. A quick and engaging read!
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Heather Momyer
4.0 out of 5 stars Cynical & Amusing
Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2018
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I didn't think the book would work at first, but as I went on, I was delighted by the language, the strange narrator who is obsessed with her apartment building maintenance man, and the commentary on consumer culture.
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Cassidy N
5.0 out of 5 stars Lucy Biederman is a priestess of Human Sadness. She ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017
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Lucy Biederman is a priestess of Human Sadness. She reaches into the dark depths most of us must ignore in our world for our own safety, and emerges with truth. Read this book.
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Sam
5.0 out of 5 stars I don't know what there is in me that is so base and wicked that I love Lucy Biederman's book
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2017
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To adopt Princess Margaret's words to Gore Vidal, I don't know what there is in me that is so base and wicked that I love Lucy Biederman's book.
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