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Alive in Necropolis Hardcover - 2008
by Doug Dorst
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
A fresh, imaginative debut novel abouta young police officer in northern Californiastruggling to keep the peace and maintaina grip on reality in a town wherethe dead outnumber the living.
Colma, California, is the only incorporated cityin America where the dead outnumber theliving. The longtime cemetery for San Francisco,it is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio,Wyatt Earp, and aviation pioneer LincolnBeachey. It is also the home of Michael Mercer,a rookie cop trying to go by the book as hestruggles to navigate a new realm of grownuprelationships including a shaky romancewith an older woman; a growing alliance withhis cocky, charismatic partner, Nick Toronto;fading college friendships; and an aching senseof responsibility for a local rich kid who Mercerrescues from a dangerous prank in the cemetery.
But instead of settling comfortably into adultlife, Mercer becomes obsessed with the mysteriousfate of his predecessor in the police unit,Sergeant Featherstone, who seems to havebecome confused about whether he was policingthe living or the dead. And as Mercer delvesdeeper into Featherstone's story, it appears thatMercer's own sanity is beginning to slip eitherthat, or Colma's more famous residents are notresting in peace as they should be.
With all the playful sensitivity of Haruki Murakamiand the haunted atmosphere of Paul Auster,but with a voice all his own, Doug Dorst hascrafted an irresistible, compelling debut.
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- Title Alive in Necropolis
- Author Doug Dorst
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st/1st
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Hardcover, New York
- Date July 2008
- Bookseller's Inventory # 248602
- ISBN 9781594489877 / 1594489874
- Weight 1.44 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.46 x 1.39 in (23.16 x 16.41 x 3.53 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Ghost stories, California, Northern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008005817
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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