| Death of an Ordinary Man Contributor(s): Duncan, Glen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802170048 ISBN-13: 9780802170040 Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback Published: November 2004 Annotation: The author of "I, Lucifer" continues his penetrating and innovative exploration of the supernatural with this novel. Nathan Clark's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: "At rest." But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he finds out why he died. |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004056727 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.5" W x 8.28" L (0.79 lbs) 304 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2004 pg. 929 Booklist 11/01/2004 pg. 462 Library Journal 11/15/2004 pg. 49 Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 65 Publishers Weekly 12/13/2004 pg. 44 Entertainment Weekly 01/21/2005 pg. 95 New York Times 02/06/2005 pg. 1 Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2006 pg. 9 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: I Lucifer established Glen Duncan as a writer "up there in the literary stratosphere with Martin Amis or T. C. Boyle" (Washington Post). Now with Death of an Ordinary Man, Duncan continues his penetrating and innovative exploration of the supernatural with a novel that is far and away his most powerful and accomplished yet. Nathan Clark's gravestone offers a short and hopeful summary: At rest. But Nathan is not at rest, and knows he won't be until he finds out why he died. How has he come to hover over his own funeral, a spectral spectator to the grief of his family and friends? Privy now to their innermost thoughts and feelings-- confessions that are raw, brutal, and unexpected-- Nathan spends the day of his wake getting to know the living as he has never known them before: His father struggles with a legacy of family tragedy; his wife and best friend with the baggage of a doomed affair; his older |
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