Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

By Alice Bennett

Book Overview

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afterlives, from the temporal experiments of Martin Amis's Time's Arrow to narration from heaven in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230364241
• ISBN13: 9780230364240
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"