Tex and Molly in the Afterlife - Softcover

Grant, Richard

4.08

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9780380807062: Tex and Molly in the Afterlife

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380807068 ISBN 13: 9780380807062

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1999

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Molly's and Tex's abrupt and accidental deaths have granted them a unique opportunity to brazenly reinvent their personal realities--not to mention a chance to commune with various forsaked ancient deities and down-and--out woodland spirits. But a pair of gentle souls once firmly rooted in the Earth cannot so easily vacate this corporeal plane. There are despoilers, witches, wolves, outlaw hackers, and rabid survivalists running wild through the soon-to-be corporately mutated Great North Woods. And Tex and Molly aren't about to vanish forever into the fast-moving eddy of Time until they take one last shot at profoundly influencing Eternity and this Life that is no longer theirs.

Like a racous pagan dance in Thomas Pynchon's garden, here is a novel rich in intelligence, wit, unrestrained joy, and serious strangeness--a truly breathtaking flight of the imaginatino--written with style and heart by an award-winning storyteller whom the Washington Post once proclaimed "either a genius or a madman."

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Review:

If two aging hippies can stubbornly hang on to the '60s for 30 years, then hanging on to life after dying isn't much of a stretch. Sponsored by rival deities, Tex (Bear) and Molly (Raven) become players--or prompters--in an improvisational drama of survival whose improbable cast is vast and largely unwitting. Grant's multimythic storytelling lends glamour to scruffy coastal Dublin, Maine; he's a relentless observer, but an affectionate reporter, of the foibles and faults of the authentically miscellaneous residents and visitors. His major themes and leitmotifs are here, but the novel overall is less abstract and more playful than some of Grant's previous work.

About the Author:

Richard Grant is the author of seven novels, including In the Land of Winter, published in hardcover by Avon Books in November 1997. His book, Through the Heart, won the Philip K. Dick Award. He lives in Lincolnville, on the coast of Maine.

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