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Ray in Reverse by Daniel Wallace (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill

ISBN-101565122607

ISBN-139781565122604

eBay Product ID (ePID)1640027

Product Key Features

Book TitleRay in Reverse

Number of Pages225 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFantasy / Contemporary, General

Publication Year2000

GenreFiction

TypeTextbook

AuthorDaniel Wallace

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight11.1 Oz

Item Length7.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-088844

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition

SynopsisSitting in Last Words group where everyone is recounting their last words on earth, Ray is embarrassed. He didn't declare his love. He didn't say anything symbolic. He didn't reveal his benevolence or goodwill. In fact, he didn't even finish his sentence. His words didn't measure up, and now he can't seem to get them out of his head.Now, in Heaven, he has time to reflect on his short life of fifty years. This is the darkly humorous story of that life, told backward. We see Ray Williams in his life's most crucial moments--his moments of infidelity, his premature proposal of marriage, his sexual confusion, the dog he accidentally killed, the penny he had to have, and the baby he unwittingly saved. Ray is Everyman at his very best and at his absolute worst--and is none too clear about when he's being either one. Beginning at death and ending at age ten, Wallace's novel leads us back to Ray in his innocence--achieving, against all odds, a happy ending.Funny, unforgettable, and with one foot in a fabulistic world, Ray in Reverse continues the incandescent storytelling of Big Fish, the storytelling that one reviewer described as "Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Rowan and Martin."

LC Classification NumberPS3573.A4256348R39