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The Living End

✍ Scribed by Elkin, Stanley

Book ID
107309146
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
1979
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
62 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

From Library Journal

George Guidall provides a perfectly timed performance of author Elkin's comic vision of the afterlife. It chronicles the hapless adventures of several human souls as they make their way through the underworld and paradise. God is portrayed as a vain, childish dilettante unhappily seeking appreciation for and from his creation. The various suffering humans are portrayed with wry sympathy, but none of the souls are particularly memorable. The ironies are obvious?a decent hardworking character is damned while an amoral schemer is accidentally sent to heaven. The scenes of hell are horrific, but Dante's Inferno (Audio Reviews, LJ 10/15/97) is more so, and it is hard to see what new insights Elkin brings to his subject. Guidall's reading is full of dry and melancholy wit, but the book itself consistently falls short. Not recommended.?John Owen, Advanced Micro Devices, Santa Clara, CA
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

Π²Π‚ΡšAn inspired fantasy superbly executed.Π²Π‚Ρœ —_Time_

Π²Π‚ΡšElkinΠ²Π‚β„’s books are magical riffs of irreverent wisdom.Π²Π‚Ρœ —_The_ Washington Post

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