Afterlife and Narrative in Contemporary Fiction

By Alice Bennett

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349349356
• ISBN13: 9781349349357
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"