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Next Life Might Be Kinder
A Literary Fiction Novel by Howard Norman
Subgenres:
- Noir,
- Ghost Story,
- 1970s Halifax
This book is for you if you're into...
- Grief-driven stories where the dead might not be gone
- Literary fiction with noir undertones and psychological games
- Plots involving filmmakers blurring the line between art and life
This haunting story of love and the aftermath of a murder is a complex literary novel and a page-turner that's impossible to put down.
Sam Lattimore met Elizabeth Church in an art gallery in 1970s Halifax. But their brief, erotically charged marriage was extinguished with Elizabeth's murder.
Since that traumatic loss, Sam's life has grown complicated. In a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films. Soon he comes to regret his decision, leading to an increasingly intense game of cat and mouse between the two men.
Furthermore, Sam has begun seeing Elizabeth—not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and what at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely.
Next Life Might Be Kinder is a riveting novel by a two-time National Book Award nominee, the acclaimed author of The Bird Artist and What Is Left the Daughter—and features an opening sentence worthy of the Noir Hall of Fame.
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