Half Life - Softcover

Jackson, Shelley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060882360 ISBN 13: 9780060882365

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2020

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2007-07-03 Pages: 448 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Half-Life is a novel about a pair of conjoined twins who are deeply unhappy in each others company Nora. the dominant twin. is strong. funny.. and deeply independent. thirsting for love and adventure. Blanche. by contrast. has been sleeping for nearly twenty years. Finally sick of carrying her sisters dead weight. Nora decides she wants her other half gone for good. so she leaves San Francisco for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation. which promises to make two one And that one. of course. will be Nora -.. Blanche will be mourned. but not missed But once Nora arrives in London. her past begins to surface in surprising and disturbing ways. forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory Something seems to be drawing Noras thoughts back to the site of her rather unusual conception...

About this title

Product Description:

Nora and Blanche are conjoined twins. Nora is strong, funny, and deeply independent, thirsting for love and adventure. Blanche, by contrast, has been asleep for twenty years. Sick of carrying her sister's dead weight, Nora wants her other half gone for good--a desire that takes her from San Francisco to London in search of the Unity Foundation, a mysterious organization that promises to make two one. But once in England, Nora's past begins to surface in surprising and disturbing ways, pushing her to the brink of insanity and forcing her to question her own--and Blanche's--grip on the truth.

Review:

"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

"[A] shimmering, dazzling, delight, filled with ... humor and poignancy that should endear her to thousands of new readers.--Washington Post

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2020
• ISBN 10: 0060882360
• ISBN 13: 9780060882365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450