A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
Kitty Aldridge
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Add to basketFrom Fiction First, Congleton, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 5 May 2003
Quantity: 1 available
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A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the Author on the title page. Seller Inventory # 008447
Bibliographic Details
Title: A Trick I Learned from Dead Men
Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition
About this title
After the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traineeship at their local funeral home and discovers there is life after death. Here, in the company of a crooning ex-publican, a closet pole vaulter, a terminally-ill hearse driver, and the dead of their local town, old wounds begin to heal and love arrives as a beautiful florist aboard a 'Fleurtations' delivery van.
But death is closer than Lee Hart thinks. Somewhere among the quiet lanes and sleepy farms something else is waiting. And it is closing in. Don't bring your work home with you, that's what they say. Too late.
Sometimes sad, often hilarious and ultimately tragic and deeply moving, A Trick I Learned from Dead Men is a pitch perfect small masterpiece from a writer described by Richard Ford as having 'a moral grasp upon life that is grave, knowing, melancholy, often extremely funny and ultimately optimistic'.
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