Little Comedies about Death (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781534667020)

16 characters find their afterlives more intricately entwined with their personalities than they had imagined. Humorous, lyrical, and based on contemporary and metaphysical theories, these stories bring the foibles of human nature into the realm of the "Just Ending." A paleontologist's wife, who is a closet collector herself, discovers that "you have to take it with you" in the afterlife. An armchair traveler melts through a wormhole in a church in Italy. A handful of people incarnate over and over, taking turns as lover, deceiver, warrior, friend. A timid woman's soul adds another version of herself each time she is frightened, and they nearly collide. A stonecutter is fought over by Saturn and Jupiter, then released. A master chocolatier dies in a seeming earthquake and walks through the rubble only to find the river Lethe. And ten more.

Author: Anna Marie Laforest
ISBN-10: 1534667024
ISBN-13: 9781534667020
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/19/2008
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d