Mary Roach



Mary Roach

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gender female
place of birth United States
genre Nonfiction

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Mary Roach is the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon, GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California.

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books by Mary Roach

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avg rating: 3.99 | 6299 ratings | 3 distinct works
Spook: Science Tackles the Aft... Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by Mary Roach
avg rating 3.43 — 1035 ratings — published 2006
12 editions
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Stiff Stiff (Paperback)
by Mary Roach
avg rating 4.03 — 219 ratings — published 2004
14 editions
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Bonk Bonk (Paperback)
by Mary Roach
avg rating 4.00 — 56 ratings — published 2008
7 editions
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"The human head is of the same approximate size and weight as a roaster chicken. I have never before had occasion to make the comparison, for never before today have i seen a head in a roasting pan."
Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers)
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"One IGHS member said that, yup, she could hear it, too. Then again, during a dinner conversation earlier in the trip, this same woman heard “Siegfried and Roy” as “Sigmund Freud.” The resulting image-Sigmund Freud with flowing hair and tigers and too much men’s makeup-haunts me to this day."
Mary Roach
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"there is a photograph of zugibe and one of his volunteers in the aforementioned sindon article. zugibe is dressed in a knee-length white lab coat and is shown adjusting one of the vital sign leads affixed to the man's chest. the cross reaches almost to the ceiling, towering over zugibe and his bank of medical monitors. the volunteer is naked except for a pair of gym shorts and a hearty mustache. he wears the unconcerned, mildly zoned-out expression of a person waiting at a bus stop. neither man appears to have been self-conscious about being photographed this way. i think that when you get yourself down deep into a project like this, you lose sight of how odd you must appear to the rest of the world."
Mary Roach (Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers)
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