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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2008
On Sale: September 30, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0374161860
EAN: 9780374161866
Hardcover
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“I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and
addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious
treats—with devilish tricks inside them.”—Michael Dirda,
The Washington Post Neil Gaiman has written: “Jonathan
Carroll has the magic. He’ll lend you his eyes, and you’ll
never see the world in quite the same way ever again.” Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of
The Ghost in Love. A man falls in the snow, hits his head
on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man
doesn’t die, and the ghost that’s been sent to take his
soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately
to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss
says, we don’t know how this happened but we’re working on
it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out
what’s going on. The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid.
But a funny thing happens—the ghost falls madly in love
with the man’s girlfriend, and things naturally get
complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not
die when he was “supposed” to because for the first time in
their history, human beings have decided to take their
fates back from the gods. It’s a wonderful change, but one
that comes at a price. The Ghost in Love is about what happens to us when we
discover that we have become the masters of our own fate.
No excuses, no outside forces or gods to blame—the
responsibility is all our own. It’s also about love, ghosts
that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and
picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different
ages. Stephen King has said that “Jonathan Carroll is as scary as
Hitchcock, when he isn’t being as funny as Jim Carrey.”
Jonathan Lethem sees Carroll as the “master of sunlit
surrealism.” However one regards this beguiling original,
two facts are indisputable: It’s tough being a ghost on an
empty stomach. And The Ghost in Love is a triumphant
return.
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