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23%OFFCaitlin Doughty - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - 9781782111054 - V9781782111054
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Description for Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Paperback. The critically acclaimed account of Caitlin Doughty's first year working on the funerary frontlines Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; DN; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
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 to avoid thinking about, she started to wonder about the lives of those she cremated and the mourning families they left behind, and found herself confounded by people's erratic reactions to death. Exploring our death rituals - and those of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782111054
SKU
V9781782111054
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Ref
99-99

About Caitlin Doughty
Caitlin Doughty was born and raised in Hawaii before gaining a degree in Medieval History from the University of Chicago. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she owns an alternative funeral home, Undertaking LA. She is the creator of the 'Ask a Mortician' web series, the founder of the death acceptance collective The Order of the Good Dead and ... Read more

Reviews for Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
A zingy, fresh and possibly even important book about death . . . This book might change your life

Evening Standard

Upbeat, brave and brilliantly, morbidly curious . . . Important and timely

Sunday Times

A well-researched, beautifully observed book and Doughty is a convincing and impassioned advocate ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Smoke Gets in Your Eyes


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