7/6/2023 0 Comments Book lust with nancy pearl![]() ![]() When they no longer exist in the memory of anyone living, they disappear.īut again, Brockmeier doesn't mean this metaphorically - in this intermediate place are ordinary people living their quotidian lives, publishing newspapers, falling in love, regretting the past, anticipating the future. In the world of this novel, when someone dies, they go to some other, intermediate place, where they remain so long as there is someone alive who remembers them. ![]() Sounds like a thriller, right? But the plot itself is almost incidental to the book's theme, which really concerns the quite literal power of memory. The plot, laid bare, is this: There's a worldwide epidemic due to an out-of-control synthetic virus that is inexorably leading to the end of humankind. Secondly, it's one of those novels that's simply unique I can't think of another story that's even similar. First of all, it sounds depressing, which it isn't, really. It's difficult to do a precis of Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead. ![]()
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