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Vintage
January 2002
On Sale: January 8, 2002
320 pages ISBN: 0375727647 EAN: 9780375727641 Paperback
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Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has
dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to
pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and
motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly
illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored
strange as a nursing home where the living dead are
preserved, to a wildlife museum where the dead are presented
as living, the girls attend to their future. A remarkable
attendant cast of characters, including a stroke survivor
whose soulmate is a vivisected monkey, an aging big-game
hunter who finds spiritual renewal in his infatuation with
an eight-year-old–the formidable Emily Bliss Pickles–and a
widower whose wife continues to harangue him, populate this
gloriously funny and wonderfully serious novel where the
dead are forever infusing the living, and all creatures
strive to participate in eternity.
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