num_pages: 144
description: A quintessential Elkin protagonist, Ellerbee is a good husband, a good employer, a good sport who cares greatly about his fellow human beings―until he is killed during a senseless liquor-store hold-up. Suddenly smote by a deity as indifferent as history, Ellerbee is off on a whirlwind tour of a distressingly familiar theme-park Heaven and inner-city Hell―to learn, along with his late coworkers and a marvelously vivid cast of characters, that much of what they’ve always heard about God’s love, God’s wrath, and the afterlife is, unfortunately, quite true.
language: English
title: Living End
titlecomplete: Living End (Lannan Selection)
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Religion, Comedy, Fiction, Jewish, Humor
ratings_count: 635
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press