crying and frying

[Craig Clark]

Diana York Blaine <dyb0001 at jove.acs.unt.edu> asks:

> I'm planning a seminar next term on death, mourning and suicide in
> literature.  Someone mentioned Werther--any other suggestions?  I
> thought maybe Hamlet and Gerald's Party, inter alia. I'm not limited by
> genre, period or geography.  Diana 

Well, definitely De Lillo's _White Noise_. For something a bit 
lighter, Stephen King's _Pet Semetary_. Perhaps le Carre's _A Perfect 
Spy_?

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
 the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
 on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"