Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)

Staff Pick Badge
Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife By Mary Roach Cover Image
$16.95
On Our Shelves Now
SoHo
6 on hand, as of Mar 27 7:43am
(SCIENCE)
Seaport
1 on hand, as of Mar 27 7:33am
(SCIENCE)
Downtown Brooklyn
6 on hand, as of Mar 27 7:43am
(SCIENCE)
Rockefeller
1 on hand, as of Mar 27 7:43am
(SCIENCE)

Staff Reviews


 

Extraordinary fun. Part snark (lots of snark) and some science. Roach scrutinizes the absurd with such acerbic enthusiasm that I know I'd wither in her presence. But gosh, she's a delightful read! Anyhow, these ghost people have it coming. They are the most ridiculous of her subjects, even if you count yourself among them (and I do).

— Allison

Description


The best-selling author of Stiff  and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.


"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

About the Author


Mary Roach is the author of five best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in Oakland, California.

Praise For…


The general reader’s ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science. . . . Roach’s writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark.
— Malcolm Jones - Newsweek

Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.
— Janet Maslin - New York Times

Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun.

— David A Walton - Pittsburgh Union-Tribune

Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club.

— Vince Darcangelo - Boulder Weekly

Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining.

— Dorman T. Schindler - Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News
Product Details
ISBN: 9781324036043
ISBN-10: 1324036044
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date: October 4th, 2022
Pages: 320
Language: English