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How the Dead Live

How the Dead Live

How the Dead Live
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How the Dead Live

by Self, Will

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ISBN 13
9780747548959
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London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in silver. Octavo. Map-endpapers. 404pps., with a sewn-in black ribbon bookmark. There is mild bumping to the spine-ends, otherwise flawless: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of crinkling to the spine-ends; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. ".Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters -- lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful Natasha, a junkie -- buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, Lily slides in and out of the present, taking us on a surreal, opinionated, stage-by-stage trip through a lifetime of lust and rage. A career girl in the 1940s, a sexed-up, tippling adulteress in the 1950s and '60s, a divorced PR flack in the 1970s and '80s, Lily presents us with a portrait of America and England over 60 years of riotous and unreal change. And then, it's over: Lily catches a cab with the Aboriginal wizard Phar Lap Jones, her guide to the shockingly banal world of the dead. It is a dreamlike world, and yet it is familiar: She works again in PR and rediscovers how great smoking is. In this world, her cohabitants include Ride Boy, the son who died at age nine and swears a blue streak, as well as three eyeless, murmuring wraiths -- the Fats -- composed of the pounds, literally the whole selves, she lost and gained over her lifetime. As Lily settles into her nonexistence, the most difficult challenge for this staunchly difficult woman is how to understand that she's dead, and how to leave the rest behind." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books.. SIGNED by the Author. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth.

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How the Dead Live is a novel by Will Self. It was originally published by Penguin in 2001.

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Title
How the Dead Live
Author
Self, Will
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
0747548951
ISBN 13
9780747548959
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2000
Keywords
WILL SELF HOW THE DEAD LIVE FIRST EDITIONS SIGNED FICTION LITERATURE BRITISH AUTHORS LILY BLOOM ENGLAND FANTASY COLLECTIBLE BOOKS NOVELS
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