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Death of an Ordinary Man
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Title: Death of an Ordinary Man
Author: Glen Duncan
ISBN: 9780802170040
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Fiction 1516472
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
Author: Glen Duncan
ISBN: 9780802170040
Publisher: Grove Press, Black Cat
Published: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good
Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Fiction 1516472
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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