基本信息出版社：Kaplan Publishing
页码：192 页
出版日期：2009年06月
ISBN：1607140810
International Standard Book Number：1607140810
条形码：9781607140818
EAN：9781607140818
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：F. Gonzales-Crussi Classics

内容简介 “Delightfully readable.”—Newsday

“Dr. Gonzalez–Crussi is a marvelous storyteller as well as a meticulous observer, and he has written a book about death that is pulsing with life.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Gonzalez–Crussi comes off as a sort of dream dinner guest: urbane, informed, ironic, and entertaining.”—San Francisco Examiner–Chronicle

“Gonzalez–Crussi [writes] with a flowing prose style … indulging some perceptive observations on politics and religion en route…. His account of the filming of an autopsy he performed leads into a commentary on various reactions to death. He draws attention to the profound difference between the words ‘resuscitation’ and ‘reactivation’ in near–death situations…. There is much here for immediate and future pondering.”—Booklist

“Elegant…. While Gonzalez–Crussi brings some levity to his subject here, the overall tone is serious—appropriately so—and should stir readers into their own memento mori.—Kirkus Reviews
作者简介 González-Crussi is Professor emeritus of pathology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the author of Suspended Animation: Six Essays on the Preservation of Bodily Parts, a New York Times Notable Book; The Five Senses, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist; and Notes of an Anatomist, winner of the nonfiction first prize of the Society for Midland Authors. He lives in Chicago.
编辑推荐 “ What better guide to the corporeal aspects of death and its aftermath than the observations of a poetic pathologist? Gonzalez-Crussi’s work is more than reportage and reminiscences, although those elements—spiced with literary allusions—enhance his discussions of embalming, autopsy, human sacrifice, skeletons, death masks, holy relics, and scientific specimens.”

—Lingua Franca^“ Cemeteries, hospitals and funeral homes are hardly the usual backdrop for an entertaining collection of essays. But then, the writing of Frank Gonzalez-Crussi is anything but usual…Dr. Gonzalez-Crussi... has written a book about death that is pulsing with life.”

—New York Times Book Review