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1 online resource (416 pages .) |
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""Give me back my body, give me back my body.""; Chapter One. "The Truth Sounds Like A Fiction That Can And Will Be Used Against You"; ""On average, the limits of a ghost's rationality are very narrow ... ""; File 2010/Transcription of Revenant Dictation (Former Sex: Female; Deceased 15.11.2010); Chapter Two. "Kick Me"; ""Yeah, it's the life of the mind for me now, baby.""; Chapter Three. "Helen Keller Really Lived"; File 1994/Transcription of Revenant Dictation (Former Sex: Male; Deceased: 22.07.1995); Chapter Four. "A Reason to Fight." |
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""I see you've just decided to ignore my e-mails, króshka.""Chapter Five. "You See Connections and Patterns Where there are None"; ""Remember the winter I quote unqote dragged you to the ... ""; File 1993: Transcription of Revenant Composition (Former Sex: Female; Deceased: 31.12.1993); ""Here's a story, détka""; File 1984/Three Revenant Compositions (Former Sex: Male; Deceased: 13.05.1984); Chapter Six. "The First Cut is the Deepest"; ""E12.03.11: There will be two of us and we will be graded.""; ""I'd say I have too much time on my hands, if I had them."" |
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""E08.07.11: On December 25, 2021, I will be given a palm-sized ... ""Chapter Seven. "Rabbits Are Smarter Than People Think"; ""I'm on to you, my Sneekalinka."" ; File 2011/Electronic Copy of Revenant Composition, "The Ghost Writer," in Word DOCX (Former Sex: Female; Deceased: circa 2011); Chapter Eight. "Life is Not a Lab"; ""''Pay attention to body language although if you do not ... ''""; Chapter Nine. "Not Okay"; ""Where do I start, détka?""; File 2008/Revenant Provided PDF (Former Sex: Male; Deceased: circa 2008?); Chapter Ten. "The Intelligence of Absence." |
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""So this is what it comes too.""""E01.06.11: I will be born at the end of twenty-eight weeks of ... ""; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
What does it mean to really live? Or not? Set in eastern, upstate New York, Helen Keller Really Lived features a fortyish former barfly and grifter who must make a living in the wake of her wealthy husband's death, and who finds work in a clinic helping women seeking reproductive assistance. The other main character is the grifter's dead ex-husband, a Ukrainian hooker-to-healer success story, who prior to his demise was a gynecologist and after, an amateur folklorist, or ghostlorist, who collected and provided scholarly commentary on the stories of his fellow "revenants." Their intertwined sto |
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English |
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Divorced women -- Fiction
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Self-realization -- Fiction
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Divorced women
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Self-realization
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ghost stories.
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Ghost stories
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Fiction
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Ghost stories.
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Ghost stories.
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Histoires de fantômes.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014006719 |
| ISBN |
1573668486 |
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9781573668484 |
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