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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Soft Skull Pr
Publication date
January 13, 2015
Pages
252
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781619024809
ISBN-10
1619024802
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.06 lbs.
Original list price
$25.00
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Summaries and Reviews
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Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies. Elena Kelly is a body broker or Âcorpse wrangler,â one of the best in her field. When she became too ambitious, cut too many corners and too many ethical (and legal) safeguards, she ran afoul of the law and medical profession, triggering a huge scandal in Louisville, Kentucky that quickly went national. She lost everything  and now humbled and on a strict, three-year parole, she works as coronerâs assistant in Danville.
Elena is still trying to come to grips with her regret and guilt when she is unexpectedly drawn into the search for her former best friendâs missing body. Elena knows what can happen to a body that goes Âmissing,â how it can be salvaged and used indiscriminately for spare parts, and she endeavors to seek salvation in finding Lia and bringing her body home, as complete as possible. Her desperate search drags her back to the underworld of the dead and pits her against a new and nefarious corpse wrangler  one more talented and deadly than she ever was.
Second Life pulls back the curtain on those who exist on the edge of the medical profession, the ones who remove skin and tissue and bones from the dead, for use by surgeons, medical students practicing technique, cosmetic surgeons, medical equipment companies and labs running medical experimentsÂanyone in need of muscle and ligament and bones. It philosophically explores our obligation to protect the dead and thrillingly examines what happens when we Âliterally leave the land of the living.
Elena is still trying to come to grips with her regret and guilt when she is unexpectedly drawn into the search for her former best friendâs missing body. Elena knows what can happen to a body that goes Âmissing,â how it can be salvaged and used indiscriminately for spare parts, and she endeavors to seek salvation in finding Lia and bringing her body home, as complete as possible. Her desperate search drags her back to the underworld of the dead and pits her against a new and nefarious corpse wrangler  one more talented and deadly than she ever was.
Second Life pulls back the curtain on those who exist on the edge of the medical profession, the ones who remove skin and tissue and bones from the dead, for use by surgeons, medical students practicing technique, cosmetic surgeons, medical equipment companies and labs running medical experimentsÂanyone in need of muscle and ligament and bones. It philosophically explores our obligation to protect the dead and thrillingly examines what happens when we Âliterally leave the land of the living.
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Hardcover
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from Soft Skull Pr (January 13, 2015)
9781619024809 | details & prices | 252 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.06 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies.
About: Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies.
Paperback
from Soft Skull Pr (March 15, 2016)
9781593766368 | details & prices | 252 pages | 5.50 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.76 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies.
About: Second Life takes us into the strange world of the second life of bodies and what happens to the physical vessel after one dies.
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