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You Can Live Forever
Julie Maxwell
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Description for You Can Live Forever
Paperback. Alice is going to live forever. She's been promised this since childhood. All she has to do is follow the true religion of The Unbelievable Potential of Human Beings. Her mother is a pillar of the church and her brother is a deacon. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
'Few disappointments compare to the loss of eternity...'
Alice is going to live forever. She's been promised this since childhood. All she has to do is follow the true religion of The Unbelievable Potential of Human Beings. Her mother is a pillar of the church and her brother is a deacon. But Alice is faltering, she's losing the knack of living forever. Things aren't helped by her father William, a part-time arsonist, rejected husband, ladies' man and fraudster, or by Jude, an attractive fellow church-goer with a longing for womankind.
In this intricate and satisfying debut, which ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099506911
SKU
KLN0016504
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Julie Maxwell
Julie Maxwell was a Fellow and Lecturer in English at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. She has published articles on Shakespeare, and on the English Bible. She now lives in Oxford and is currently working on a new novel. You Can Live Forever, her first novel, won the Betty Trask Award.
Reviews for You Can Live Forever
A fine novel that mixes comedy and darkness the way someone in China once mixed saltpetre and charcoal to produce gunpowder. Reading this novel is like watching a cordite fuse racing towards its dark destination
Craig Raine Maxwell demonstrates wit, elegance and great insight...hilarious...excellent
Literary Review
You Can Live Forever boasts a down-to-earth charm that is relentlessly ... Read more
Craig Raine Maxwell demonstrates wit, elegance and great insight...hilarious...excellent
Literary Review
You Can Live Forever boasts a down-to-earth charm that is relentlessly ... Read more