Safe in Heaven Dead
by Ligon, Samuel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060099100
- ISBN 13
- 9780060099107
- Seller
-
Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harpercollins. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by AUTHOR on half-title. 0.91 x 9.12 x 6.28 Inches. 256 pages. Signed by Author. <p>Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs ...</p><p><i>Runs from the corruption of machine politics.</i></p><p><i>Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor.</i></p><p><i>Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars.</i></p><p><i>Runs to New York, where he meets Carla, a doctoral student at Columbia, who, enmeshed in her own world of corruption, is also ready to become invisible, ready to run.</i></p><p>They hit the road, forgetting themselves, but back home in Michigan, where everything has fallen apart, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there. Of course he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back either. And he has to.</p><p>A kinetic, spellbinding debut, <i>Safe in Heaven Dead</i> reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world, too, which, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow breeds hope.</p> .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 602030
- Title
- Safe in Heaven Dead
- Author
- Ligon, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060099100
- ISBN 13
- 9780060099107
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Contemporary, Literature & Fiction, Literary
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Literary;
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Storbeck's
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Georgetown, Texas
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