The embalmer /
A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career, from the drown...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Toronto :
Coach House Books,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First English edition. |
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| Summary: | A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career, from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of color into a corpse's skin for that blushing look, the narrator must look her parents' deaths, and her relationship with them, straight in the eye. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French by Héliotrope as L'embaumeur"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 91 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 1552453782 9781552453780 |