- Female friendship, Loss (Psychology), Death, Quakers
May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Joe R. Lansdale
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co., Hachette Audio
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781611135145
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