num_pages: 256
description: Surrounded by her two daughters, Lily Bloom, an aging American in the final stages of cancer, spends her time in a bed in Central London's Royal Ear Hospital, drugged with painkillers, moving in and out of consciousness, and railing against the unfairness of the world around, the sins of those around her, and her coming death. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
language: English
title: How the Dead Live
titlecomplete: How the Dead Live
characters: Russell, Natalia Yaws Bloom, Charlene Yaws Elvers, Richard Elvers, Lithopedion, Phar Lap Jones, Lord Churchill
genres: Literature, Fiction, Horror, Contemporary, Death, 21st Century, Fantasy, British Literature, Novels, Humor
ratings_count: 2855
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Grove Pr