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How the Dead Live

(2000)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
2000 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee)

It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump her full of morphine, she slides in and out of consciousness, outraged that there is so little time left and so many people still to disparage.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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