- Short Stories, Fiction, Fiction, horror, Fiction, ghost
Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945...Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse.
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Classical in form, bleak, grave and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Joe Hill
- First published
- October 1, 2007
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, William Morrow
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061541865
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Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an article the previous year in Variety broke his cover (although online speculation about Hill's family background had been appearing since 2005). Joe Hill is a past recipient of the Ray Bradbury Fellowship. He
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