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The Living End, March 2004
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THE LIVING END
By: Stanley Elkin

A Humorous Look At The After-Life

Dalkey Archive Press
March 2004
Featuring: Ellerbee
144 pages
ISBN: 1564783421
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A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings—until he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up. Suddenly smote by a diety as indifferent as history, Ellerbee is off on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme-park Heaven and inner-city Hell—to learn, along with his late coworkers and a marvelously vivid cast of characters, that much of what they've always heard about God's love, God's wrath, and the afterlife is, unfortunately, quite true.

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