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Helen Keller Really Lived
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Helen Keller Really Lived Paperback - 2014

by Elisabeth Sheffield

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The newest novel by Elisabeth Sheffield, the award-winning author of Gone and Fort Da

What does it mean to really live? Or not?

Set in eastern, upstate New York, Helen Keller Really Lived features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husband's death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance. The other main character is the grifter's dead ex-husband, a Ukrainian hooker-to-healer success story, who prior to his demise was a gynecologist and after, an amateur folklorist, or ghostlorist, who collected and provided scholarly commentary on the stories of his fellow "revenants."

Their intertwined stories explore the mistakes, miscarriages, inadequacies, and defeats that may have led to their divorce, including his failure (according to her) to "fully live."

As it investigates the theme of what it means to "really live" or not, Elisabeth Sheffield's brilliant new novel is also an exploration of virtual reality in the sense of the experience provided by literature. It is a novel awash in a multitude of voices, from the obscenity-laced, Nabokovian soliloquys of the dead Ukrainian doctor, to the trade-school / midcentury-romance-novel-constrained style of his dead mother-in-law.

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  • Title Helen Keller Really Lived
  • Author Elisabeth Sheffield
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 432
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher F2c
  • Publication date 2014
  • ISBN 9781573661812 / 1573661813
  • Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.51 x 5.71 x 1.09 in (21.62 x 14.50 x 2.77 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Ghost stories, Self-realization
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014006719
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/15/2014, Page 0

About the author

Elisabeth Sheffield is the author of the novels Gone and Fort Da. She teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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