How the dead live
Subtitle: stories
By: by Alvin Greenberg.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Saint Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Description: How the Dead Live is filled not with victims of the many major traumas of our times but with individuals whose lives have been wrested from their control by the random impact of the commonplace: by accident and disease, by urban chaos, by the lost and the found.

Greenberg's stories are full of people who are buried in their own lives and struggling with whatever crude tools come to hand - humor, despair, confrontation, acceptance - to carve out a little underground space where they can breathe. Through small moments of the ridiculous and larger moments of emotional conversation, the stories re-enact the drama of how we are all to survive our own immersion in the inexplicable.
Table of contents: title: Gruber in traffic; title: A couple of dead men; title: Tremors; title: Immersion; title: Crimes against humanity; title: How the dead live; title: Scholars and lovers; title: The life of the mind; title: Oedipus at Columbus; title: No loose ends; title: Closed Mondays; title: Found; title: The high hard one; title: FREE-43; title: Construction zone.