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Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245950
Size: 21.21 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-09-15
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782111042
Size: 58.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2015-04-16
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Smoke Gets In Your Eyes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. 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 other cultures - she pleads the case for healthier attitudes around death and dying. Full of bizarre encounters, gallows humour and vivid characters (both living and very dead), this illuminating account makes this otherwise terrifying subject inviting and fascinating.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393351904
Size: 45.90 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2015-10-27
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Smoke Gets In Your Eyes eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly)—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, and affliction, and became an intrepid explorer in the world of the dead. In this best-selling memoir, brimming with gallows humor and vivid characters, she marvels at the gruesome history of undertaking and relates her unique coming-of-age story with bold curiosity and mordant wit. By turns hilarious, dark, and uplifting, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes reveals how the fear of dying warps our society and "will make you reconsider how our culture treats the dead" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249905
Size: 19.65 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-10-03
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF From Here To Eternity Traveling The World To Find The Good Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty embarks on a global expedition to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Zoroastrian sky burials to wish-granting Bolivian skulls, she investigates the world’s funerary customs and expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity. Her account questions the rituals of the American funeral industry—especially chemical embalming—and suggests that the most effective traditions are those that allow mourners to personally attend to the body of the deceased. Exquisitely illustrated by artist Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity is an adventure into the morbid unknown, a fascinating tour through the unique ways people everywhere confront mortality.

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Book Detail:
Author: Bess Lovejoy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451655002
Size: 77.62 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-01-05
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Rest In Pieces eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "IN THE LONG RUN, WE'RE ALL DEAD. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination. Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln's corpse. Einstein's brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy--which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death"--Back cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393652718
Size: 80.90 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019-09-10
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs And Other Questions About Dead Bodies eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. New York Times Bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award “Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.” —Marianne Eloise, Guardian Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people—the source of some of our most revealing questions about death—Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.

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Book Detail:
Author: Caitlin Doughty
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 147461342X
Size: 24.90 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-09-19
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral? Why don't animals dig up all the graves? Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried? Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we die. Why do corpses groan? What causes bodies to turn strange colours during decomposition? and why do hair and nails appear longer after death? The answers are all within . . .

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Book Detail:
Author: Todd Harra
Publisher: Citadel
ISBN: 0806541393
Size: 43.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-12-28
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Mortuary Confidential eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From rookie mistakes and runaway corpses to screaming dead men and unusual requests, a collection of stories by funeral directors.

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Author: Jessica Mitford
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809390
Size: 68.99 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2011-11-23
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The American Way Of Death Revisited eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post

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Author: Anne Sinclair
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374251622
Size: 18.51 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-09-16
Category: Art
Language: en
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Download PDF My Grandfather S Gallery eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Drawing on her grandfather's intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque and others, the author takes readers on a personal journey through the life of Paul Rosenberg, a legendary Parisian art dealer who was forced to flee Vichy France, leaving several famous artworks behind to be captured by the Nazis.

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Book Detail:
Author: Candi K. Cann
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813145422
Size: 65.85 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2014-06-24
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Virtual Afterlives eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the physical presence of death secondary to the psychological experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death. Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly transformed.

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Book Detail:
Author: Brandy Schillace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681770938
Size: 62.89 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2016-01-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death S Summer Coat What The History Of Death And Dying Teaches Us About Life And Living eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the tradition of Being Mortal, Brandy Schillace looks at what we can learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used to denying its existence, treating it as an enemy to be beaten back with medical advances. We are living at a unique point in human history. People are living longer than ever, yet the longer we live, the more taboo and alien our mortality becomes. Yet we, and our loved ones, still remain mortal. People today still struggle with this fact, as we have done throughout our entire history. What led us to this point? What drove us to sanitize death and make it foreign and unfamiliar? Schillace shows how talking about death, and the rituals associated with it, can help provide answers. It also brings us closer together—conversation and community are just as important for living as for dying. Some of the stories are strikingly unfamiliar; others are far more familiar than you might suppose. But all reveal much about the present—and about ourselves.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dana Kollmann
Publisher: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 0806531592
Size: 32.33 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2008-02-01
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Never Suck A Dead Man S Hand eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “Informative, witty . . . Kollmann delivers terse commentary and gory detail while puncturing common misconceptions about forensics.” —Booklist Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department. “Riveting.” —M. William Phelps, New York Times bestselling author of We Thought We Knew You Unlike the popular crime dramas proliferating on today’s television networks, these forensic tales forgo glitz for grit to show what really goes on. Kollmann recounts stories that the cops and the CSI’s usually leave in the field, bringing the sights, smells, and sounds of a crime scene alive as never before. “Raw and real.” —Connie Fletcher, author of Every Contact Leaves a Trace Unveiling the process and science of crime scene investigation in all its can’t-tear-your-eyes-away fascination, Never Suck a Dead Man’s Hand takes you into the strange world behind the yellow tape, offering a truly eye-opening perspective on the day-to-day life of a CSI. “Gritty, witty, and heartfelt . . . a must-read.” —Aphrodite Jones, New York Times bestselling author of A Perfect Husband

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Book Detail:
Author: Herbert C. Northcott
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442634561
Size: 26.82 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-07-07
Category: Bereavement
Language: en
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Download PDF Dying And Death In Canada Third Edition eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Dying and Death in Canada offers a comprehensive discussion of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and several new topics have been added, including assisted suicide and active euthanasia, end of life care, emerging trends in funerary practices, and changing conceptualizations and interventions in the grieving process. A glossary has also been added along with end-of-chapter review questions and an appendix listing recent and seminal movies, television programs, documentary films, and other visual media sources dealing with dying and death. The new edition includes 22 black and white photos, 4 figures, and 3 tables."--

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Book Detail:
Author: Caleb Wilde
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062465260
Size: 75.72 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-09-26
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Confessions Of A Funeral Director eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying

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Book Detail:
Author: Robert Webster
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1600080715
Size: 32.94 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2007-07
Category: Funeral homes
Language: en
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Download PDF Does This Mean You Ll See Me Naked eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A funeral director reflects on 30 years of serving the living and the deceased while providing us with a behind-the-scenes story told with both empathy and humor. He attempts to assuage our curiosity and answer those questions that are uppermost in our minds when faced with death, including: - How do you handle the loss of a loved one? - What really happens during a death call? - Why do people send flowers? - What occurs during the restoration process? - What do people leave in loved ones' caskets? - How has the undertaker's role evolved? - and much more...

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Book Detail:
Author: Mac Altgelt
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
ISBN: 1914471415
Size: 25.12 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2021-06-25
Category: Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF In The Beast S Cage eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Harbouring a dark secret from his past, immortal Lord Blake from medieval England arrives mysteriously in a sleepy coastal town in Georgia, USA. There he meets Hugo Wegener, an ex-doctor who is burdened with his own dark secret, and life-long resident Ginny Harrison, who is involved in her aging father’s absurd dream of refurbishing and reopening the town’s long-defunct zoo. As Blake’s relationship with Ginny blooms, he finds himself involved in the insane zoo project and, when Bruce Kelly, an exotic game smuggler from South Africa, arrives in town on the eve of the grand reopening with a plan to rid the zoo of its valuable animal species, it is up to Blake, Hugo, and the old man to stop him, without revealing the terrible secrets of their pasts. “Altgelt’s writing is beautifully lyrical, evoking the Victorian literature that seems to inspire his title character... A fresh and imaginative paranormal tale.” – Kirkus Reviews

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Book Detail:
Author: Wayson Choy
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
ISBN: 0307373274
Size: 39.27 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2009-05-29
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Not Yet eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Framed by Wayson Choy’s two brushes with death, Not Yet is an intimate and insightful study of one man’s reasons for living. In 2001, Wayson Choy suffered a combined asthma-heart attack. As he lay in his hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, his days punctuated by the beeps of the machines that were keeping him alive, Choy heard the voices of his ancestors warning him that without a wife, he would one day die alone. And yet through his ordeal Choy was never alone; men and women, young and old, from all cultures and ethnicities, stayed by Choy’s side until he was well. When his heart failed him a second time, four years later, it was the strength of his bonds with these people, forged through countless acts of kindness, that pulled Choy back to his life. Not Yet is a passionate, sensitive, and beautiful exploration of the importance of family, which in Choy’s case is constituted not through blood but through love. It is also a quiet manifesto for embracing life, not blind to our mortality, but knowing how lucky we are for each day that comes.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kel McDonald
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781945820632
Size: 24.95 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-10-13
Category: Comics & Graphic Novels
Language: en
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Download PDF You Died eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death -- the one aspect of life we all have in common -- is waiting for everyone, yet our practices, beliefs, myths, and stories about it are as diverse as we are. YOU DIED celebrates these vibrant cultural expressions of the great equalizer in a thrilling, life-affirming whirlwind of a book, an inspirational volume to be treasured through times of both loss and abundance (and every day in between). At turns both brazen and insightful, morose and optimistic, YOU DIED asks a wide array of cartoonist newbloods and all-stars to relate their most unforgettable tales of death and what comes next. Filled with beautifully illustrated accounts of grief and mourning, ancient myths, memorial rites around the globe, afterlife in the far reaches of space, and the simple and touching ways both the living and the dead carry on, this lively collection starts a comforting and much-needed dialogue about death as a natural part of life. Featuring an introduction by death positivity movement pioneer and activist mortician CAITLIN DOUGHTY and a murderer's row of comics talent including RAINA TELGEMEIER, SHAE BEAGLE, and LISA STERLE.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lindsey Fitzharris
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374719667
Size: 21.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-06-07
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF The Facemaker eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times Bestseller Finalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize | Named a best book of the year by The Guardian "Enthralling. Harrowing. Heartbreaking. And utterly redemptive. Lindsey Fitzharris hit this one out of the park." —Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery. From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. The Facemaker places Gillies’s ingenious surgical innovations alongside the dramatic stories of soldiers whose lives were wrecked and repaired. The result is a vivid account of how medicine can be an art, and of what courage and imagination can accomplish in the presence of relentless horror.

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