Down Among the Dead Men
A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
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Narrateur(s):
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Liz Holliss
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Auteur(s):
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Michelle Williams
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Keith McCarthy
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Michelle Williams, an attractive young woman with close family ties and an active social life, describes her first extraordinary year in her unusual new job as a mortuary technician. It’s a year in which, with innate good humour, she encounters death at its most tragic, bizarre, and hilarious. Her tale, neither gruesome nor sad, is enlivened by a range of colourful and eccentric characters, from pathologists and coroners to hospital porters and undertakers, giving us a glimpse of life - and death - that few of us will ever experience.
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- Roberta W
- 2022-05-22
Not for the squeamish
Be prepared to have your eyes opened. A good tale of what happens to the deceased from someone who came into the field rather by accident. Funny and compassionate.
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