
Spook
Science Tackles the Afterlife
Paperback
Other Editions of This Title:
Hardcover (9/17/2005)
Prebound (10/17/2006)
Compact Disc (10/1/2005)
Compact Disc (10/1/2005)
Compact Disc (6/26/2013)
MP3 CD, Abridged (6/26/2013)
MP3 CD (3/24/2015)
MP3 CD (10/1/2005)
MP3 CD (10/1/2005)
Description
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
"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 that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
Praise For Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife…
— Malcolm Jones
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
Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun.
— David A Walton
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
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
W. W. Norton & Company, 9780393329124, 320pp.
Publication Date: October 17, 2006