- Older women, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Terminally ill
Lily Bloom, an elderly American dying of cancer in a British hospital, retraces her life and then enters a rather banal world of the dead.
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Contemplative, contemporary, intimate and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Will Self
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 404
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, Bloomsbury, Penguin
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747548959
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