How the Dead Live

Excellent copy- First American edition originally published Great Britain 2000 Bloomsbury London books has whiteboards white wrapped spine, light blue titling on spine very interesting end-papers ,amazing art, D/J just good does have some scruffs/small tear, done its job,, protecting the book which is very good– pages on –nice sized type--- How the Dead Live is a work that will disturb, astonish, provoke, quite possibly change how we talk about death.A career girl in the 1940s, a sexed-up, tippling adulteress in the 1950s & '60s,divorced PR flack living in 1970s & '80s, Lily presents a portrait of America – England over 60 years of riotous ,unreal change.a dreamlike world,& familiar: reborn works again in PR, rediscovers how great smoking is. In this world, her cohabitants include Ride Boy,son who died at age nine,swears a blue streak,and three eyeless, murmuring wraiths -- the Fats -- composed of the pounds, literally the whole selves, she lost /gained over her lifetime. Lily settles into her nonexistence, improved by her death. How The Dead Live by Will SELF . Hardcover; New York, New York, U.s.a.: Grove Press, 2000,Hardcover, First American edition, – 404 pages, good Pages: 404– subjects Americans England ,hospitalizations, terminally ill women, aged women,science fiction, end papers copyright Martin Rowson, jacket photo Dan Levine author photo– Don McCullin LAX Vespa,Los Angeles Culver City- - Media Mail USPS-you get the copy you were viewing carefully Drop kick-packed to protect it in - transit
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