
How The Dead Live
Will Self has one of literature's most astonishing imaginations, and in How the Dead Live his talent has come to full flower. Lily Bloom is an angry, aging American transplanted to England, now losing her battle with cancer. Attended by nurses and her two daughters -- lumpy Charlotte, a dour, successful businesswoman, and beautiful Natasha, a junkie -- Lily takes us on a surreal, opinionated trip ...
Series: Will Self
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (September 2, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0802138489
ISBN-13: 978-0802138484
Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 735980
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“Well, I said I would pass on this author but since I bought two together, I decided to read. Although I found the writing amazing...one really has to study his words...I constantly had to look things up..(that's good, by the way), in the end I guess...”
hrough the stages of a lifetime of lust and rage. From '40s career girl to '50s tippling adulteress to '70s PR flak, Lily has seen America and England through most of a century of riotous and unreal change. And then it's over. Lily catches a cab with her death guide, Aboriginal wizard Phar Lap Jones, and enters the shockingly banal world of the dead: the suburbs. She discovers smoking without consequences and gets another PR job, where none of her coworkers notices that she's not alive. She gets to know her roommates: Rude Boy, her terminally furious son who died in a car accident at age nine; Lithy, a fetus that died before she ever knew it existed; the Fats, huge formless shapes composed of all the weight she's ever gained or lost. How the Dead Live is Will Self's most remarkable and expansively human book, an important, disturbing vision of our time.
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