Death With Interruptions: A Novel
by Saramago, Jose
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- ISBN 10
- 0151012741
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012749
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Synopsis
On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebrationflags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits homefamilies are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance policies become meaningless, and funeral parlors are reduced to arranging burials for pet dogs, cats, hamsters, and parrots. Death sits in her chilly apartment, where she lives alone with scythe and filing cabinets, and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, became human and were to fall in love?
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021637
- Title
- Death With Interruptions: A Novel
- Author
- Saramago, Jose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good, Not Price Clipped
- Edition
- American First
- ISBN 10
- 0151012741
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012749
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- International Fiction [Portugal]
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