“Six beautifully wrought meditations on the art of embalming and related matters…. Dr. Gonzalez–Crussi’s tone is measured, grave, and curiously formal … [with] a mordant
“A writer of precision and originality.”—The New Yorker “What is novel about these essays is that they are essays in the old if not defunct sense of the term. They mix f
In Carrying The Heart, Dr. F. Gonzalez-Crussi reveals not just how our bodies breathe air, pump blood, give birth, digest food, and discard waste, but the sometimes bizarre, often hilarious, and alwa
“Extraordinary on first reading, even more so on a second . . . the sort of book one wants to pick up again and again.”—Oliver Sacks “Lively and erudite.”—Th
“[Gonzalez–Crussi] is content to follow his argument where it leads, making points along the way. To follow his fancy, too, although it always comes circling back to the topic in hand. On
“Delightfully readable.”—Newsday “Dr. Gonzalez–Crussi is a marvelous storyteller as well as a meticulous observer, and he has written a book about death that is pu
