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Next life might be kinder / Howard Norman.

by Norman, Howard A.

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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

Widowers -- Fiction.

Murder victims -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Grief -- Fiction.

9780544484061 (trade pbk.)

"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."--Publisher.

Suspense fiction

Psychological fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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