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How the Dead Live

Autor Will Self
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 iun 2009
How the Dead Live- Booker nominee Will Self's hilarious novel about the afterlife

'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

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.