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The Brief History of the Dead
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780375423697 Book cover for 9780786287536
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (July 5, 2006)
9780786287536 | details & prices | 400 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.50 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $29.95
About: “Remember me when I’m gone”just took on a whole new meaning.
from Pantheon Books (February 14, 2006)
9780375423697 | details & prices | 256 pages | 6.00 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $22.95
About: In an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed who remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd fall in love again, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Vintage Books (January 9, 2007)
9781400095957 | details & prices | 252 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $15.95
About: In The City, an afterlife world inhabited by the recently departed as long as they remain in the memories of the living, Marion and Phillip Byrd find themselves falling in love again after decades of marriage, while on Earth, their daughter, Laura, is stranded alone in an Antarctic research station, cut off by extreme weather.