Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-In-Training

Jokinen, Tom

ISBN 10: 0306818914 / ISBN 13: 9780306818912

Published by Da Capo Press, 2010

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0306818914I5N00

Synopsis:

At forty-four, Tom Jokinen decided to quit his job in order to become an apprentice undertaker, setting out to ask the questions: What is the right thing to do when someone dies? With the marketplace offering new options (go green, go anti-corporate, go Disney, be packed into an artificial reef and dropped in the Atlantic. . .), is there still room for tradition? In a year of adventures both hair-raising and hilarious, Jokinen finds a world that is radically changed since Jessica Mitford revised The American Way of Death, more surprising than Six Feet Under, and even funnier and more illuminating than Stiff.

If Bill Bryson were to apprentice at a funeral home, searching for the meaning of life and death, you’d have Curtains.

About the Author: Tom Jokinen is a radio producer and video-journalist who has also worked as a railroad operator and an editorial cartoonist. Jokinen spent two years in medical school, where he dissected two human cadavers. He and his wife live in Ottawa.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Curtains: Adventures of an ...
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Fair
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket