Description
| Product ID: | 9781949467857 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rules for Being Dead |
| Authors: | Author: Kim Powers |
| Page Count: | 312 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Horror and supernatural fiction, Horror & ghost stories |
| Description: | A movie-obsessed boy in 1960s Texas loses his mother, and he and her ghost search for what happened to her. “Kim Powers''s haunting and spellbinding novel Rules for Being Dead reads like an intoxicating blend of the best of Shirley Jackson, Alice Sebold and Fannie Flagg." —STARRED Review, Shelf Awareness It''s the late 1960s in McKinney, Texas. At the downtown theater and the local drive-in, movies—James Bond, My Fair Lady, Alfie, and Dr. Zhivago—feed the dreams and obsessions of a ten-year-old Clarke who loves Audrey, Elvis, his family, and the handsome boy in the projector booth. Then Clarke loses his beloved mother, and no one will tell him how she died. No one will tell her either. She is floating above the trees and movie screens of McKinney, trapped between life and death, searching for a glimpse of her final moments on this earth. Clarke must find the shattering truth, which haunts this darkly humorous and incredibly moving novel. |
| Imprint Name: | John F Blair Publisher |
| Publisher Name: | John F Blair Publisher |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-06-02 |