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008			140923s2014 mau 000 1 eng
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050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.N564 _bN49 2014
082	0	0	_aFIC NOR
100	1		_aNorman, Howard
245	1	0	_aNext life might be kinder _c/ Howard A. Norman
260			_aNew York _b: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt _c, 2014
300			_a255 pages _c; 23 cm
520			_a"After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me." Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat and mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth, not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely.
650		4	_aWidows _v--Fiction
650			_aMurder victims _v--Fiction
650			_aMurder investigation _v--Fiction
655		7	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
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