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She worked on the Schott’s Almanac series for five years, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Bess Lovejoy is a writer, researcher, and editor based in Brooklyn. I enjoyed it like a jar of perfect dill pickles: when the mood strikes, nothing else will satisfy.” (Mary Roach be

• Title : Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
• Author : Bess Lovejoy
• Rating : 4.51 (922 Vote)
• Publish : 2016-8-28
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 352 Pages
• Asin : 1451655002
• Language : English

She worked on the Schott’s Almanac series for five years, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Believer, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. Bess Lovejoy is a writer, researcher, and editor based in Brooklyn.

I enjoyed it like a jar of perfect dill pickles: when the mood strikes, nothing else will satisfy.” (Mary Roach bestselling author of Gulp and Stiff)“If really, we’re all sitting in the undertaker’s waiting-room, then Rest in Pieces is the perfect easy read, preparation for the moment when the nurse steps out of the shadows and quietly calls your name.” (Simon Winchester bestselling author of Skulls and The Professor and the Madman)“The world is awash with legendary body parts, from Einstein’s brain to Napoleon’s most intimate organ, and this wildly entertaining account proves that the fate of the grisly relics tells us a huge amount about history—and ourselves.” (Tony Perrottet author of Napoleon’s Privates)“Deliciously morbid and delightfully macabre, Rest in Pieces is required reading for those of us who intend, one day, to die.” (Ben Schott bestselling author of Schott's Original Miscellany)"A historically beguiling, stranger-than-fiction compendium, which unearths the surprising fa

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Einstein’s brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy—which they drank.

From Alexander the Great to Elvis Presley, and from Beethoven to Dorothy Parker, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses, and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes toward death.. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer’s office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination.

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