From the Teeth of Angels - Softcover

Carroll, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385476469 ISBN 13: 9780385476461

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1995

Synopsis

A critically acclaimed novel explores the meaning of death through the intertwined fates of three characters--a man who meets Death in a dream, a film actress who gives up everything for her lover, and a terminally ill patient. Reprint.

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0385476469
• ISBN 13: 9780385476461
• Binding: Paperback