Next life might be kinder
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
ISBN
9780547712123 (hbk.), 9780547712123, 054771212X
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Adult Fiction (3rd floor)
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9780547712123 (hbk.), 9780547712123, 054771212X
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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
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Norman, H. A. (2014). Next life might be kinder . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Norman, Howard A. 2014. Next Life Might Be Kinder. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Norman, Howard A. Next Life Might Be Kinder Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Norman, Howard A. Next Life Might Be Kinder Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
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