The Very Special Dead

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powerful blend of fable and realism, The Very Special Dead examines lost love and the ruins of the American Dream. Three men in a haunted New England fishing village are so demoralized with debt, terminal illness and bereavement that they swap bodies with three revenants they meet one night on a marshy road. The men are left in the bodies of the dead, watching their families and lives helplessly from outside and trying desperately to get back. The women get left behind and have to clean up the mess their men have left in their wake. Beautiful, heartbreaking, and stunningly imaginative, Livermore grapples with what it is to love, to lose, and, ultimately, to live.

8.99 GBP