{"product_id":"leaving-the-dead-dennis-danvers-9781645409434","title":"Leaving the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeaving the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a collection of eighteen stories about the long slow dance with death and the heartbreak of life-no zombies allowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen a writer runs into the ghost of his father who died of Alzheimer's, death has restored his memory, and he's eager to share.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn unlikely couple and an abandoned-seeing eye dog find happiness after everyone else dies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA college freshman goes home for the holidays with her lover who claims to be a robot-and takes her to an abandoned factory on Christmas Eve where she was born.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA cat on death's door is miraculously healed by his owner, but lives on and on and never ages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen the broken dream factory shuts down, its most devoted worker has to figure out how the world will get along without broken dreams.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Confederate ghost whose grave marker is a stumpy stone with a number tells what he was really fighting for after the Segway tour has rolled away.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn the Vietnam days when BF Skinner was king, a young man fasting to flunk his draft physical raises lab rats for the psych department to run mazes that always end with a one-way ticket to the herpetarium.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA young poet turns his art into a religion for the inspiration and the tax break, and just maybe, immortality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA strong young woman hacking a home out of a mountainside thinks she has a rattlesnake problem until she learns to love them, and they love her back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA carnival performer sings a beautiful song and plummets to her death but rises to live and sing another performance, as long as someone in the crowd would willingly die in her place.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn a triptych of novelettes an old man traces his alien roots all the way back to the mysterious geological feature known as The Abyss.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dennis Danvers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1645409430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781645409434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Speaking Volumes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Dennis Danvers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44920115953919,"sku":"9781645409434","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3958c238-e29a-4cc4-b769-8ea8a0c9a5fa.jpg?v=1710360229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/leaving-the-dead-dennis-danvers-9781645409434","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}