Mary Roach
Spook
Science Tackles the Afterlife
“Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining.”—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News
“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 I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?” In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
“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.”—Malcom 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
Mary Roach is the author of Stiff. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Wired, Outside, GQ, Discover, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California
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Author Web site:
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Stiff
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