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How the Dead Live
How the Dead Live
Author: Will Self
Will Self is a novelist of world-class stature, an unparalleled literary craftsman with a ferocious insight. In How the Dead Live, he gives us his best and most important book yet, an incisive and troubling dissection of the spiritual emptiness and death in our culture. Lily Bloom is an aging American in final-stage cancer in the Royal Ear Hospi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802116710
ISBN-10: 080211671X
Publication Date: 9/2000
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Grove Pr
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Will Self is a very talented writer. Of all his works, though, this is not one of my favorites. I found it a little long-winded. You can find the very worthwhile short story version of this book in the collection "The Quantity Theory of Insanity".


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