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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
  • Author : Caitlin Doughty
  • Release Date : 15 September 2014
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN 13 : 9780393245950
Ratings: 4
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Book Description: "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—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).

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes And Other Lessons from the Crematory

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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"Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—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 ...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : Canongate Books
Genre : Social Science
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, Guardian From her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths ...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Genre : Uncategorized
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Morbid and illuminating (Entertainment Weekly) a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession."...

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Author : John Goddard
Publisher : Vanguard Press
Genre : Uncategorized
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other ...

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Genre : Music
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Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Antiques & Collectibles
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Author : Caitlin Doughty
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Genre : Social Science
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New York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens ...

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Genre : Music
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