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All the Living and the Dead: An Exploration of the People Who Make Death Their Life's Work

Autor Hayley Campbell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 feb 2023
'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 YearIn 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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781526601438
ISBN-10: 1526601435
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Raven Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

STRONG USP: There's not been a book like this before. It is filled with storiesfrom the most fascinating people doing jobs some readers won't have evenheard of, delivered in a sensitive and compassionate way by an author whohas held a genuine lifelong fascination and fear about death. It will appeal tofans of Jon Ronson as well as readers of Sue Black and Caitlin Doughty.

Notă biografică

Hayley Campbell is an author, broadcaster and journalist. Her work has appeared in WIRED, Guardian, New Statesman, Empire, GQ, and more. She lives in London with her cat, Ned.

Recenzii

Hayley Campbell is working out a philosophy of death by getting close to it; holding it; asking interesting questions of people who spend their lives dealing with it. This is an essential, compassionate, honest examination of how we deal with death, and how it changes the living.
Campbell weaves judicious reflections on the philosophy and history of the death industry into the reportage... Never macabre... poignant... Transformative
This is an absorbing and important book, seeking out stories so many shy away from and telling them with such respect, humanity, heart and, yes, wit. Without exaggeration, an awe-inspiring achievement
The book's tour de force is the chapter on the technicians who prepare bodies for autopsy at St Thomas's Hospital in London. It is a superlative piece of writing, one of the best essays I have read in a long time: provocative, loving and profound
This book about death and about the people whose jobs and whose lives are dealing with death is moving, funny, and liable to unexpectedly cause me to tear up, reading it.... A gentle book and, like death itself, sometimes an unexpectedly kind one
Campbell is a gorgeous writer, capturing the exquisite pathos and gallows humor found in folks who spend their lives working with the dead
An extraordinary journey, through scenes and characters so chilling they have their own crystalline beauty. The writing is finely felt and full of life, Campbell always finding a way to look through horror, to see humanity. So many of the images in it are heart-stopping - and by the end I was surprised to find myself sobbing. It's superb
A compassionate and compelling book. Fascinating and devastating in equal measure
Hayley Campbell is one of Death World's most important voices. Her compassion for the living and the dead stands out amongst the endless authors currently writing about death and dying. All the Living and the Dead is an extremely important book for anyone interested in what happens to a person after they die. I really think everyone should read it in order to appreciate the respect all the invisible workers tasked with handling the dead demonstrate every day
I spent New Year devouring this book. Essential reading if you're a human person in possession of a life. A fascinating, searingly honest & unexpectedly tender look at those who take care of us in death. I badly needed to read this
An intriguing, candid, and frequently poignant book that asks what the business of death can teach all of us in the midst of life. Readers will form a connection with Campbell's voice as intimate as her own relationship with mortality
This is a brave tour through the valley of the shadow. I am happy to welcome Hayley Campbell to the Death community
Campbell's fascinating study of the manifold workers who do lay hands on the dead is eye-opening... A book about corpses might seem like a downer. Worse, the subject risks creating melodrama or glib horror out of grief. But All the Living and the Dead is surprisingly cheerful, even life-affirming. This is partly thanks to Campbell's open-hearted, observant style of writing, which manages to be vivid without sensationalizing the horrors she records
I was blown away by Hayley Campbell's All the Living and the Dead, her hands-on reportage of professions in the death industry