How the Dead Live
Autor Will Selfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2009
'Scathingly entertaining'The Times
'Lily is a colossal heroine, a nighttown Molly Bloom ... What begins as a satiric novel of ideas ends as a surprisingly moving elegy'Guardian
Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been improved by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing - but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard to deal with the (enforced) company of a calcified, pop-obsessed foetus, her dead, foul-mouthed son and three gruesome creatures made of her own unwanted fat, she must find something to do with her time. So how do the dead live? And what happens when they stop being dead?
'The work of a novelist writing at the height of his powers. It is a horror story, a love-me-do story, a full-frontal assault on the seven deadly sins - and a celebration of them. Lily may be an old cow but she's good company'Evening Standard
Will Self is the author of nine novels includingCock and Bull;My Idea of Fun; Great Apes; How the Dead Live; Dorian, an Imitation; The Book of Dave; The Butt; Walking to HollywoodandUmbrella, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He has written five collections of shorter fiction and three novellas:The Quantity Theory of Insanity; Grey Area; License to Hug; The Sweet Smell of Psychosis; Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo; Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys; Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of WoeandLiver: A Fictional Organ with a Surface Anatomy of Four Lobes. Self has also compiled a number of nonfiction works, includingThe Undivided Self: Selected Stories; Junk Mail; Perfidious Man; Sore Sites; Feeding Frenzy; Psychogeography; Psycho TooandThe Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141040172
ISBN-10: 0141040173
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141040173
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Will
Selfis
the
author
of
many
novels
and
books
of
non-fiction,
includingGreat
Apes,The
Book
of
Dave,How
the
Dead
Live,
which
was
shortlisted
for
the
Whitbread
Novel
of
the
Year
2002,The
Butt,
winner
of
the
Bollinger
Everyman
Wodehouse
Prize
for
Comic
Fiction
2008,Umbrella,
which
was
shortlisted
for
the
Booker
Prize
2012,
andShark.
His
most
recent
novel,Phone,
was
shortlisted
for
the
Goldsmiths
Prize.
He
lives
in
south
London.
Descriere
Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing - but if anything her temperament has worsened.