- Hardcover: 212 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385468415
- ISBN-13: 978-0385468411
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,306,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Ian McGann meets Death in a dream, and Death promises to answer his questions. The actress Arlen Ford leaves her wealth and flees to Europe and in Vienna, the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead. Now the fates of all three converge.
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While on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night – and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann’s questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will pay with his life.
In Hollywood the famous actress Arlen Ford realizes at the height of her career that she is lost in her life, and must drop out of it if she is to save herself. Giving up everything, she flees to Europe where she meets war correspondent Leland Zivic. From the beginning their relationship is astonishing and all consuming. Arlen has been waiting for this man all her life.
And in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead …
“Cannot be recommended too highly”
GUARDIAN
“A stark, cunning parable about the excruciating fact of our own eventual deaths … a fine and harrowing work of fiction”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Carroll is like death in his narrative skills – all benign plausibility and ratlike cunning”
OBSERVER
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book is absolutly wonderfull. Beautiful, stagering, terrifying, and any other positive adjective you care to name. It IS complex, that much is true, but I don't consider that a bad thing at all, I was utterly engrosed and although a little confused at the end it is the kind of confusion where you have little flashes of understanding that make your knees slightly shakey. The plot is occasionlay nebulous, but that is just part of Jonathan Carroll's style - not everything need to be concrete does it?
I can't recomend it highly enough.
I can't recomend it highly enough.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you have been enthralled by Carroll's other books you will love this one. If you have never heard of this writer then this book is an ok place to start, although one of his earlier novels may be more suitable. All I can really say is READ THIS AUTHOR. All his books are magic!
0 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Unputdownable is one of those expressions I wish I could have started with, (although I did); I would have to say this is more unpickupable. It's of no surprise that this title is now residing in limited availability, the more limited the better.
After a promising start where one of the central characters meets death in a dream and promises to answer any questions put to him, so long as he understands the answers, if not the price is his life. This is a good basis to start from; unfortunately, (maybe I didn't understand the sub-plot and paid with the price of deathly boredom),as the other characters are limp and flaccid and unbelievable.
The moments when the text wakes you up again are when death makes what can only be too few appearances before the diction starts to dribble again. In hindsight even that isn't good enough for this to remain sustainable throughout and by mid-way you don't care about the characters, the plot or whether you finish the book. I did finish it but I felt like I'd battled to the final page to attain this.
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