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All the Living and the Dead
An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work
Taschenbuch von Hayley Campbell
Sprache: Englisch

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'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES
'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up' NEIL GAIMANAn Irish Times Book of the Year

In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us,' she asks, 'how do they deal with it?' Would facing death directly make us fear it less?

Inspired by her own childhood fascination with the subject, she meets embalmers and a former death row executioner, mass fatality investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day, she asks: Does seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death remain hidden?

'Essential, compassionate, honest' Audrey Niffenegger, author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
'Never macabre... poignant... Transformative' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A superlative piece of writing... provocative, loving and profound' THE TIMES
'Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement' NIGELLA LAWSON
'Moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up' NEIL GAIMANAn Irish Times Book of the Year

In this profoundly moving and remarkable book, journalist Hayley Campbell explores society's attitudes towards death, and the impact on those who work with it every day. 'If the reason we're outsourcing this burden is because it's too much for us,' she asks, 'how do they deal with it?' Would facing death directly make us fear it less?

Inspired by her own childhood fascination with the subject, she meets embalmers and a former death row executioner, mass fatality investigators and a bereavement midwife. She talks to gravediggers who have already dug their own graves and questions a man whose job it is to make crime scenes disappear. Through Campbell's incisive and candid interviews with people who see death every day, she asks: Does seeing death change you as a person? And are we all missing something vital by letting death remain hidden?

'Essential, compassionate, honest' Audrey Niffenegger, author of THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
'Never macabre... poignant... Transformative' FINANCIAL TIMES
Über den Autor
Hayley Campbell
Zusammenfassung
STRONG USP: There's not been a book like this before. It is filled with stories
from the most fascinating people doing jobs some readers won't have even
heard of, delivered in a sensitive and compassionate way by an author who
has held a genuine lifelong fascination and fear about death. It will appeal to
fans of Jon Ronson as well as readers of Sue Black and Caitlin Doughty.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781526601438
ISBN-10: 1526601435
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 404024
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Campbell, Hayley
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Raven Books
Maße: 196 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Hayley Campbell
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,2 kg
Artikel-ID: 122023360
Über den Autor
Hayley Campbell
Zusammenfassung
STRONG USP: There's not been a book like this before. It is filled with stories
from the most fascinating people doing jobs some readers won't have even
heard of, delivered in a sensitive and compassionate way by an author who
has held a genuine lifelong fascination and fear about death. It will appeal to
fans of Jon Ronson as well as readers of Sue Black and Caitlin Doughty.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781526601438
ISBN-10: 1526601435
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 404024
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Campbell, Hayley
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Raven Books
Maße: 196 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Hayley Campbell
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,2 kg
Artikel-ID: 122023360
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