Afterlives of the Saints

Afterlives of the Saints: Stories from the Ends of Faith

✍ Dickey, Colin 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Unbridled Books 🌐 English ⚖ 415 KB

_Afterlives of the Saints_ is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges' "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, "and so forth" -- each essay focus

The Afterlives

✍ Pierce, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

****"Ridiculously good" (_The New York Times_) author **Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).** Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Reviv

The Afterlives

✍ Pierce, Thomas 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 1 MB

****"Ridiculously good" (_The New York Times_) author **Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).** Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Reviv

Afterlives

✍ Abdulrazak Gurnah 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury 🌐 English ⚖ 198 KB 👁 2 views

'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, bu

Afterlives

✍ Abdulrazak Gurnah 📂 Fiction 📅 2020 🏛 Bloomsbury 🌐 English ⚖ 198 KB 👁 2 views

'One of Africa's greatest living writers' Giles Foden Restless, ambitious Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the Schutzruppe askari, the German colonial troops; after years away, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Hamza was not stolen, bu

Strange Afterlives

✍ Lee, A; Martinez (editor) 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 67 KB

An anthology of short fiction featuring stories of inhuman undead creatures, edited by A. Lee Martinez.

Afterlives of the Saints

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