Half Life - Hardcover

Jackson, Shelley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060882352 ISBN 13: 9780060882358

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006

Synopsis

An unhappy conjoined twin, Nora will do anything to rid herself forever of her attached sister, Blanche, heading for London in search of a mysterious doctor who promises to eliminate Blanche, but when she arrives, her past begins to surface in enigmatic and disturbing ways. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Haunting, meditative." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Jackson's prose is nothing short of dazzling." -- Publishers Weekly

"A Molotov cocktail of highly combustible intelligence. . . truly glorious."--New York Times Book Review

"Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels."--Jonathan Lethem

"I loved this book. . . . Half Life is twisty and vampy and campy, grotesque, picaresque, droll, and dazzling."--Kelly Link, author of Magic for Beginners

"[A] big, ambitious, deeply strange and strangely riveting novel . . . Maestra!"--Newsday

"Haunting, meditative."--Kirkus Reviews

"[E]ven in its most philosophical moments, HALF LIFE maintains an almost giddy flair for fabulism and macabre detail.--Time Out New York

"Jackson's prose is nothing short of dazzling."--Publishers Weekly

"Jackson's style is as offbeat as her storytelling... with hilariously dark humor . . . intriguingly odd."--USA Today

About the Author:

Shelley Jackson is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children's books, and "Skin," a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than two thousand volunteers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0060882352
• ISBN 13: 9780060882358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 440