Roberta is a 1935 American musical film by RKO starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott.It was an adaptation of a 1933 Broadway musical Roberta, which in turn was based on the novel Gowns by Roberta by Alice Duer Miller.It was a solid hit, showing a net profit of more than three-quarters of a million dollars. The song the carrousel plays is "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," recalling the natural reaction of tears when smoke gets in people's eyes. My attraction to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes surrounds my morbid fascination with death, customs and culture.

Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre—took a job at a crematory, turning morbid curiosity into her life’s work. Don't miss this summary of Caitlin Doughty's funny, witty, and dark look into funerary practices in the United States: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 272 pages and is available in Paperback format.

The first edition of the novel was published in October 15th 2014, and was written by Caitlin Doughty.

Book review: ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” life in a crematory, by Caitlin Doughty.

Caitlin Doughty asks near the beginning of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, her by turns shockingly gruesome, mordantly funny and, ultimately, richly thought-provoking memoir about working in an Oakland, California, mortuary … She gave the readers/listeners a part of herself, so that when you finished the book you'd feel that connection. Interview with Caitlin Doughty, author of the mortician's memoir Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Holden is so happy that he is "damned near bawling." "Morbid and illuminating" ( Entertainment Weekly )—a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession., Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, And Other … The main characters of this non fiction, … By Rachel Lubitz. October 17, 2014. Summary: A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession. Alternately heartbreaking and hilarious, fascinating and freaky, vivid and morbid, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is witty, sharply drawn, and deeply moving. Start your 48-hour free trial to unlock this Smoke Gets in Your Eyes study guide and get instant access to the following:. Phoebe goes round and round, the music plays, and she looks "so damn nice " in her blue coat on that old wooden horse; for a moment, Holden's world is perfect. Caitlin Doughty brought all of those things and even more.

Doughty's book takes a serious and critical look at what's wrong with our modern death rites and offers her own personal opinions as to how we can improve them while sharing often hilarious