From the Teeth of Angels - Hardcover

Carroll, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002240947 ISBN 13: 9780002240949

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1994

Synopsis

Ian McGann meets Death in a dream, and Death promises to answer his questions. The actress Arlen Ford leaves her wealth and flees to Europe and in Vienna, the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead. Now the fates of all three converge.

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From the Back Cover

While on holiday in Sardinia Ian McGann goes to sleep one night – and meets Death in a dream. It promises to answer any of McGann’s questions, but if he fails to understand the answers he will pay with his life.

In Hollywood the famous actress Arlen Ford realizes at the height of her career that she is lost in her life, and must drop out of it if she is to save herself. Giving up everything, she flees to Europe where she meets war correspondent Leland Zivic. From the beginning their relationship is astonishing and all consuming. Arlen has been waiting for this man all her life.

And in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead ...

“Cannot be recommended too highly”
GUARDIAN

“A stark, cunning parable about the excruciating fact of our own eventual deaths ... a fine and harrowing work of fiction”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Carroll is like death in his narrative skills – all benign plausibility and ratlike cunning”
OBSERVER

From the Inside Flap

can suddenly raise the dead...Death  visits a vacationer in a dream, ready to make a  deal...An actress abruptly walks out on her fast-lane  life in Hollywood--and their fates converge in  Jonathan Carroll's daring imagination.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002240947
• ISBN 13: 9780002240949
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256