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Article: Hardcovers in Brief
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 9, 1994
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NONFICTION
The Day of the Dead: And Other Mortal Reflections, by F.
Gonzalez-Crussi (Harcourt Brace, $19.95). These six essays on death
by the Chicago pathologist are surprisingly unlugubrious, though
Gonzalez-Crussi admits he is known as a writer with "a mortuary
pen." The ruminations were inspired by his experience as narrator
for a 1992 BBC-TV documentary based in part on his writing.
(Gonzalez-Crussi is the author of "Notes of an Anatomist.") He takes
a closer look at stories surrounding the deceased - the fate, for
example of the body of Eva Duarte Peron, which was prepared for show
in a glass-lidded coffin by one Pedro Ara whose technique involved
immersion of the body in a tank of ...
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