- Fiction, Literature, Paranormal fiction, Fiction, occult & supernatural
Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero.Life sucks, and then you die. Or, if you're James Stark, you spend eleven years in Hell as a hitman before finally escaping, only to land back in the hell-on-earth that is Los Angeles.Now Stark's back, and ready for revenge. And absolution, and maybe even love. But when his first stop saddles him with an abusive talking head, Stark discovers that the road to absolution and revenge is much longer than you'd expect, and both Heaven and Hell have their own ideas for his future.Resurrection sucks. Saving the world is worse.Darkly twisted, irreverent, and completely hilarious, Sandman Slim is the breakthrough novel by an acclaimed author.
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Contemporary, classical in form, unpretentious and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Richard Kadrey
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Harper Voyager, Editions Denoël
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061714306
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