Mortuary Confidential: (eBook)

Todd Harra, Kenneth McKenzie (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
256 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-3423-7 (ISBN)

Infos

From scary to heartwarming and hilarious, an assortment of behind-the-scenes, true stories about life as an undertaker. From shoot-outs at funerals to dead men screaming and runaway corpses, undertakers have plenty of unusual stories to telland a special way of telling them. In this macabre and moving compilation, funeral directors across the country share their most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply poignant stories about life at death's door. Discover what scares them and what moves them to tears. Learn about rookie mistakes and why death sometimes calls for duct tape. Enjoy tales of the dearly departed spending eternity naked from the waist down and getting bottled and corkedin a wine bottle. And then meet their familiesthe weepers, the punchers, the stolidly dignified, and the ones who deliver their dead mother in a pickup truck. If there's one thing undertakers know, it's that death drives people crazy. These are the best ';bodies of work' from America's darkest profession.Praise for Mortuary Confidential';As unpredictable and lively as a bunch of drunks at a New Orleans funeral.' Joe R. Lansdale, author of Moon Lake';Sick, funny, and brilliant!I love this book.' Jonathan Maberry, author of Ink';McKenzie and Harra keep us reading because these true mortuary tales are poignantand suddenly, gaspingly, in-your-face funny.' Booklist

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2010
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Afterlife • American • autobiographies • Autobiography • Bereavement • Biographies • Biographies and Memoirs • biographies of famous people • Biography • business • business books • Comedy • Dark • dark humor • Death • death and dying • death grief bereavement • Depression • depression books • Embalming • Family • final resting place • finance books • Funeral directors • funeral homes • funeral memoirs • funeral parlors • funerals • funny books • funny gifts • grave • Graveyard • Grief • grief and loss • grieving • Health • Humor • humorous • Insider • lay to rest • Memoir • Memoirs • mourners • Mourning • Nonfiction • Personal Memoirs • quirky • relationship books • relationships • Resilience • Self Help • self help books • self help books for women • self improvement books • Smoke Gets In Your Eyes • stranger than fiction • undertake memoirs • United States
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-3423-0 / 0806534230
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-3423-7 / 9780806534237