| Half Life Contributor(s): Jackson, Shelley (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060882360 ISBN-13: 9780060882365 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: Nora and Blanche are conjoined twins. Nora is strong, funny, and deeply independent, thirsting for love and adventure. Blanche, by contrast, has been asleep for twenty years. Sick of carrying her sister's dead weight, Nora wants her other half gone for good--a desire that takes her from San Francisco to London in search of the Unity Foundation, a mysterious organization that promises to make two one. But once in England, Nora's past begins to surface in surprising and disturbing ways, pushing her to the brink of insanity and forcing her to question her own--and Blanche's--grip on the truth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Science Fiction - Time Travel - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.34" W x 8.02" (0.70 lbs) 448 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family - Topical - Physically Challenged - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: “Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels.”--Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn Nora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep for nearly 30 years. Determined to shed herself of her her sister's dead weight, Nora leaves for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation, which promises to make two one. But once Nora arrives in London, the past begins to surface, forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory--a search for meaning and understanding, that will push Nora to the brink of insanity. Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jackson's first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jackson, Shelley: - Shelley Jackson is the author of the short story collection The Melancholy of Anatomy, the hypertext novel Patchwork Girl, several children's books, and "Skin," a story published in tattoos on the skin of more than two thousand volunteers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. |