The resurrectionist [a novel]
(2008)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books : Made available through hoopla, 2008
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 15 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781598875980 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11419446, 1598875981 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11419446
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Holter Graham

Gritty noir fiction, mind-bending fantasy, and medical thriller combine in a new novel by an author dubbed the cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett. Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a fortress-like haven in a post-industrial city overrun by gangs. Doctors there claim to have resurrected two patients who were similarly lost in the void. Gradually, Sweeney realizes that the cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic-book world into which Danny had been drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue that surrounds the clinic, Sweeney searches for answers and instead finds sinister back alleys, brutal dead ends, and terrifying rabbit holes of mystery. Full of puzzles and surprises, Resurrectionist is a surreal, gothic meditation on identity, the nature of consciousness, the power of stories, love, mad scientists, circus freaks, and ultimately forgiveness - both giving and receiving

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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