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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393351904
ISBN-139780393351903
eBay Product ID (ePID)208695942
Product Key Features
Book TitleSmoke Gets in Your Eyes : and Other Lessons from the Crematory
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicIndustries / Service, Personal Memoirs
GenreBiography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
AuthorCaitlin DOUGHTY
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight9.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsIn a moving--and often funny--memoir about working in a crematorium and other parts of the 'death industry,' Caitlin Doughty argues for radical change in how we face the details of death., Alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, fascinating and freaky, vivid and morbid, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is witty, sharply drawn, and deeply moving. Like a poisonous cocktail, Caitlin Doughty's memoir intoxicates and enchants even as it encourages you to embrace oblivion; she breathes life into death., Caitlin Doughty takes you to places you didn't know you wanted to go. Fascinating, funny, and so very necessary, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals exactly what's wrong with modern death denial., [Doughty's] sincere, hilarious, and perhaps life-altering memoir is a must-read for anyone who plans on dying., A book as graphic and morbid as this one could easily suck its readers into a bout of sorrow, but Doughty--a trustworthy tour guide through the repulsive and wondrous world of death--keeps us laughing., Caitlin Doughty is best known for her YouTube series Ask a Mortician, and she brings the same charisma and drollery to her essay collection Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Think Sloane Crosley meets Six Feet Under... After confronting mortality day in and day out, Doughty becomes more philosophical about her job. Evoking Kafka, she writes that 'the meaning of life is that it ends.' Everything must come to an end; it's just a shame this book eventually does too., Upbeat, brave and brilliantly, morbidly curious...Her measure of society is fierce, right on, and radical...[A]n important and timely book., This book absolutely must be read, if only to remind all of us that exercise, organic food, and plastic surgery only work up to a point. Doughty is my kind of death crusader--compassionate, unblinking, and very, very funny.
Dewey Decimal363.7/5092 B
SynopsisIn this "morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession., Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" ( San Francisco Chronicle )., In this "morbid and illuminating" ( Entertainment Weekly ) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life's work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
LC Classification NumberRA622.7.D68A3 2015
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- 26. Jun. 2018
Never thought I'd get hooked on a book again
The perspective of the book is great the stories are pretty interesting to the point that you can't stop reading until you finish them it also has a positive look to what the end of the road (death) has for us I've learned not to fear it but to embrace it as the natural outcome for all no matter who we are we're all heading there.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 26. Apr. 2019
Smoke gets in your eyes
Love this book. Interesting stories and a very funny and honest way of looking at life and deathBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 11. Jul. 2017
Amazing!
This book is definitely worth the read if you e ever been interested in the slightly morbid part of life. I love it!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 12. Mai. 2022
Smoky eye
I Love Caitlin and her humor in the death and dying industry. Great Book!!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Apr. 2022
Great book
Very happy with my purchase😊Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 23. Nov. 2024
A LITTLE HISTORY OF DEATH CUSTOMS
SURPRISINGLY GOOD!!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 20. Jan. 2021
Love this girl!
Very well written and detailed. Like the way she writesBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 23. Mai. 2020
Love it
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- 14. Apr. 2020
Really interesting and funny.
I enjoyed it a lot.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Jun. 2024
smooth deal !
smooth deal !Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
