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elegy

noun as in dirge

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Meanwhile, Trump-friendly fare like Melania Trump's memoir "Melania" still holds the top spot, while VP-elect JD Vance's "Hillbilly Elegy" was among the Top 10.

From Salon

Vance is also the author of the best-selling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, about his childhood in the white working-class Rust Belt.

From BBC

Cracking Vance for Yang involved watching the screen adaptation of his book, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

From Salon

With his book “Brothers,” Alex has written an elegy to Eddie, and their complex dynamic that was tested by drug abuse, power trips and all the other common traps that befall megastars who once shared the same bedroom.

She also paid tribute to her late grandfather, the catalyst of her dreams, in the tear-jerking elegy “Querido Abuelo.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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