Spook
Science Tackles the Afterlife
3 October 2006
Territory Rights — Worldwide including Canada, Singapore and Malaysia, but excluding the British Commonwealth.
Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
Reviews
"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
Awards
Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2005
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