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Ligon's second story collection is a tightly crafted series about a
girl wandering the United States, seeking not to find but to escape
herself.
Safe in Heaven Dead, a first novel similar to last year's art house
movie phenomenon, Memento, is a page-turning literary noir by a
brilliant new writer. Everything was rolling along smoothly for
Robert Elgin. He and his wife, Laura, had a loving marriage, and
had taken enough "me" time before having kids - one girl, one boy.
After doing the hippie, idealistic thing for awhile, he finally
allowed his father in law to get him a job in labour negotiations
where he could still fuel his power to the people energies by
fighting on the common man's behalf. When Robert becomes too good
at his job and is recruited by the County Executive's office to
conspire in some dirty negotiations that would allow for a run at
Governor, the perfect life begins to crumble. And to make matters
much, much worse, Robert learns his five year-old daughter has been
molested by the local 12 year-old neighbour, and the crumbling
becomes a full-scale slide. While his wife becomes obsessed with
grief counsellors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and
putting the twelve year old behind bars, Robert finds himself
losing touch with his family and losing his grip on reality. When
he learns of a secret, dirty fund the labour office has been
skimming off the public, he takes the money and runs. And so begins
Robert's life as a dead man. Told from the end to the beginning,
this Memento-style literary noir about one man's undoing is a fresh
new style of fiction. Safe in Heaven Dead is a stunning book by a
new voice in contemporary literature.
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Wonderland (Paperback)
Samuel Ligon; Illustrated by Stephen Knezovich
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R566
Discovery Miles 5 660
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"I didn't know how much there was to want in the world until I saw
Sheena, and then I wanted it all." These twelve short-short
stories, illustrated by collage artist Stephen Knezovich, are as
dark and absurd as they are poignant, playful, and true, examining
men and women, love and loss, donkeys and goats, and murder,
carnivals, and whiskey bosoms. "Nobody deserves love. Or everyone
does. It comes and it goes of its own free will. Like fever. Like
flood. Like the greatest thing you're ever gonna lose. And once
it's gone, it's gone for good."
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