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Anna in the Afterlife : a Novel by Gerber, Merrill Joan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Anna in the Afterlife : a Novel about?
''Once her dying got underway, Anna could not really complain about the way the process moved along.'' So begins this deftly amusing, wryly perceptive look at the dying of a feisty, funny ninety-year old woman. During the four days between her death and her burial --and with the unique perception she is allowed prior to her funeral--Anna discovers certain secrets her daughters have hidden from her. She is deeply shocked by the revelation of an act that must have transpired between herself as a child and her much older brother. In her final moments of consciousness, Anna makes the last commentaries on her own secrets and crimes before stepping into eternity. PRAISE ''Merrill Joan Gerber is not only one of our most underrated contemporary writers, she also may well be our least pretentious. Her utter lack of pretence is a major source of her raw power as a writer... Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, and some of the great Jewish comedians, Gerber extracts wry humor from embarrassing, awkward and desperate situations, even in illness and death... Like Bellow, Gerber has a genius for the irritable, the acrid and the embittered. The visitor from another planet who doesn't know what it me
Who reads Anna in the Afterlife : a Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gerber, Merrill Joan
- Publisher
- Dzanc Books : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781938103193
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction