How the Dead Live
- ISBN-10
- 1408850532
- ISBN-13
- 9781408850534
- Series
- How the Dead Live
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-03
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- Will Self
Description
It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage.
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