The Afterlives
$29.48
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
29 January 2018
Summary
The Afterlives: A Novel of Love, Loss, and What Comes Next
‘Ridiculously good’ ( New York Times ) author Thomas Pierce’s debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling and poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out.)
Will we meet again? I believe we will, but as for proof I can only offer my story, nothing more.
Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart att…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349134581 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349134588 |
| Author: | Thomas Pierce |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Blackfriars |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 29 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 157mm x 234mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
A bracingly intelligent, beautifully rendered meditation on ghosts, technology, marriage, and the afterlife. This is a remarkable novel - Emily St. John Mandel
Inventive, romantic, and unsettling, The Afterlives is a story of two people who take extraordinary measures to answer the Big Questions: What is the soul? Do we ever really die? Flabbergastingly original and sublimely satisfying - Amity GaigeThomas Pierce’s fine new novel is often humorous, but Jim Byrd’s search to find out what might lie beyond this life makes The Afterlives much more: a poignant inquiry into our human desire for permanence - Ron RashRidiculously good… These stories never drift vaguely off into the ether. They are beautifully built, and their author has an especially deft way of finding just the right final flourish….[There’s a] feeling of being inside a bubble while reading Mr. Pierce, and it is a bubble you won’t want to leave. This is such a fine collection that there’s not a stinker in the bunch....Mr. Pierce’s originality, inventiveness, questing spiritual intelligence and animal fixation aren’t easy to do justice to in the limited space here. But they’re irrefutably good reasons to discover him for yourself - New York Times, praise for The Hall of Small MammalsAbout The Author
Thomas Pierce
Thomas Pierce was born and raised in South Carolina. He is the author of the collection Hall of Small Mammals and his stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, VQR, Oxford American and elsewhere. A recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, he is a graduate of the University of Virginia creative writing program. Pierce lives in Virginia with his wife and daughters.
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