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How the Dead Live

By: Will Self
Narrated by: Buffy Davis
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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. As she begins her journey to the other world, she reflects on her husbands, her children, her entire life.

©2000 Will Self (P)2011 W F Howes Ltd Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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