About this title: Lily Bloom is old, sick, and crabby. When she dies, we follow her into the afterlife, where she is not freed from returning, in memory, to the troubles of her life on earth.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802116710ISBN:080211671X
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780140268652ISBN:0140268650
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Grove Pr
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802116710ISBN:080211671X
Description: Fine. 080211671X Excellent Condition First Edition ~ 1st Printing Hard cover book with paper dust jacket cover! Clean pages, Dust jacket has no tears, mild shelf rubs, this book is Near NEW! Shop & Save With US. read more
Edition: 1st US Edition
Binding: Softbound
Publisher: Grove Press, New York
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802116710ISBN:080211671X
Description: Fine. 8vo, 404, Advance Reading Copy. Bound in Original Multi-Color Pictorial Wraps. With Publisher's Reply Card Laid In. Author's Third Novel. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Grove Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780802116710ISBN:080211671X
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. DJ has edgewear, marks, chipping-Cover has edgewear & marks-Marks on edge-Bumped / dogeared pgs-Edgewear-Slight spine slant. read more
"Self transferring his grumpy old man persona to a grumpy old woman ghost. Clever, clever stuff, but reading it was like being caught in a whirlpool taking you down the plughole...."
How the dead live
Reviewed by Don on
2009-09-24 00:00:00.0.
Self transferring his grumpy old man persona to a grumpy old woman ghost. Clever, clever stuff, but reading it was like being caught in a whirlpool taking you down the plughole....
Rating: 3
"This was a very novel and interesting take on what the afterlife might be like. It was also quite a biting commentary on family life! The prose was quite stylised in places, particularly with Lily's constant cultural references, which was occasionally a little distracting but mostly quite cool.
Unfortunately I felt the narrative started to lose its way towards the end, with Lily endlessly stalking her daughters and Natasha wandering around Australia. I felt more lost than her for a while!
The ending also felt like a let down as well, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to take from it. It seemed fairly certain that the reincarnated Lily, Delilah, was going to die there in the flat. So what was the point of her living all those years of her afterlife and getting reincarnated, just to die as a toddler?
That aside, I did really enjoy this. Just a shame I couldn't make it to the book club meeting for it. Typical!"
How the dead live
Reviewed by Sasha on
2009-07-15 00:00:00.0.
This was a very novel and interesting take on what the afterlife might be like. It was also quite a biting commentary on family life! The prose was quite stylised in places, particularly with Lily's constant cultural references, which was occasionally a little distracting but mostly quite cool.
Unfortunately I felt the narrative started to lose its way towards the end, with Lily endlessly stalking her daughters and Natasha wandering around Australia. I felt more lost than her for a while!
The ending also felt like a let down as well, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to take from it. It seemed fairly certain that the reincarnated Lily, Delilah, was going to die there in the flat. So what was the point of her living all those years of her afterlife and getting reincarnated, just to die as a toddler?
That aside, I did really enjoy this. Just a shame I couldn't make it to the book club meeting for it. Typical!
Rating: 4
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