From the beginning their relationship is astonishing and all-consuming. Arlen has been waiting for this man all her life. And in Vienna the terminally ill Wyatt Leonard suddenly discovers that he has the ability to raise the dead. How all three of these extraordinary fates converge is the story of Jonathan Carroll's remarkable From the Teeth of Angels , a novel which goes deeper and farther than any of the author's previous work. It is both dangerous and essential.
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The original author retains all copyrights in the material reprinted here. In the past Jonathan Carroll had proven to be one of those infuriating authors. Like the late Clifford D. Simak, we come upon fascinating characters and situations in his novels, they are presented with insight, frequently from startling perspectives, in language that often begs to be read aloud, but then, far too often, the whole thing fizzles out right at the end. There's nothing quite so frustrating as finding everything one could wish for in a book, only to have it fall flat in the final stretch. But you keep coming back for more, because everything else is just so damn good and, like Charlie Brown considering the football that Lucy is holding for him, you have this blind hope that this time it'll all work out.