New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED. 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Record # 471654

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“After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me.” Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman’s spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth’s murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam’s life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat-and-mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun “seeing” Elizabeth—not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely. Next Life Might Be Kinder is a story of murder, desperate faith, the afterlife, and of love as absolute redemption—from one of our most compelling storytellers at the height of his talents.

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Bookseller: Monroe Street Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 471654
Title: Next Life Might Be Kinder (SIGNED)
Author: Norman, Howard
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st
ISBN 10: 054771212X
ISBN 13: 9780547712123
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2014
Keywords: Fiction, Mystery, 1st, , SIGNED.

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