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How the Dead Live

Will Self (2000)

SubgenreHigh Fantasy
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Standard (250-400))
Setting
CSM age18+
Goodreads3.91

Content levels

ViolenceMild
Sexual contentModerate
LanguageStrong

Heroine archetypes

Coming-of-Age Heroine

Protagonist archetypes

Ghost / Undead Protagonist

Synopsis

Lily Bloom, an elderly American dying of cancer in a British hospital, retraces her life and then enters a rather banal world of the dead.

Tags

Literary FictionMagical RealismContemporary FantasyPhilosophical Fiction