After Life Stars

Books exploring aspects of the after life.

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • A Brief History of the Dead
    Author: Brockmeier, Kevin
    Publisher: Pantheon $ 22.95 ISBN: 0375423699Date: 2006
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    From the author of the widely praised The Truth About Celia comes a mesmerizing new work that imagines the world of the afterlife and its stark relation to the world of the living.
    Updated 12.27.05
  • Being Dead
    Author: Crace, Jim
    Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux $ 23 ISBN: 0374110131 Date: 2000
    star Kirkus star PW star Booklist
    A haunting new novel about love, death and the afterlife by the award-winning author of Quarantine. Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon: A couple, naked, married almost 30 years, lies murdered in the dunes.
    Suggested Reading: All Stars | After Life Stars
    Updated 4/17/00.
  • Fly-Truffler
    Author: Sobin, Gustaf
    Publisher: Norton $ 19.95 ISBN: 0393048322 Date: 2000
    star Kirkus star Library Journal
    Through his whole life, Philippe Cabassac has fly-truffled - stalking the flies that lay their eggs directly over the tasty truffles. But after his wife's death, the truffles represent more than a delicacy; they open up a dream world where Philippe often visits his deceased spouse.

Nonfiction

  • Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death in the Dawn of the 20th Century
    Author: Blum, Deborah
    Publisher: Penguin $ 25.95 ISBN: 1594200904 Date: 2006
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    At the close of the 19th century, William James, the great philosopher, a founder of the American Psychological Association and brother of author Henry James, proclaimed his belief in ghosts and embarked on a determined, lifelong pursuit of scientific evidence to prove it.
    Updated 7.17.06
  • Spook
    Author: Roach, Mary
    Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 0393059626 Date: 2005
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    In an attempt to find out what happens when people die, the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that there is an afterlife.
    Updated 9.26.05