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Alive in Necropolis by Doug Dorst (2009, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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First Trade Paperback edition. Condition: New, unread.A very nice copy, tight and crisp. Book is square, tight, and clean throughout with no internal wear.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-101594483825

ISBN-139781594483820

eBay Product ID (ePID)71123438

Product Key Features

Book TitleAlive in Necropolis

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMystery & Detective / Police Procedural, Ghost, Literary

Publication Year2009

GenreFiction

AuthorDoug Dorst

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight14.3 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"A daring and big-hearted first novel...Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco." - New York Times Book Review "In the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayer mixed high school and bloodsuckers, Doug Dorst combines cops and ghosts in his Alive in Necropolis . The result is a haunted variation on Ed McBain''s 87th Precinct series...Imaginative and accomplished... Pitch-perfect." - USA Today "Rich, unsettling...truly haunting." - San Francisco Chronicle "An intriguing mix of coming-of-age story, police procedural, and magical realism." - Seattle-Times, "A daring and big-hearted first novel...Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco." -New York Times Book Review "In the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayermixed high school and bloodsuckers, Doug Dorst combines cops and ghosts in his Alive in Necropolis. The result is a haunted variation on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series...Imaginative and accomplished... Pitch-perfect." -USA Today "Rich, unsettling...truly haunting." -San Francisco Chronicle"An intriguing mix of coming-of-age story, police procedural, and magical realism." -Seattle-Times, "A daring and big-hearted first novel...Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco." - New York Times Book Review "In the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayer mixed high school and bloodsuckers, Doug Dorst combines cops and ghosts in his Alive in Necropolis . The result is a haunted variation on Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series...Imaginative and accomplished... Pitch-perfect." - USA Today "Rich, unsettling...truly haunting." - San Francisco Chronicle "An intriguing mix of coming-of-age story, police procedural, and magical realism." - Seattle-Times, A daring and big-hearted first novel...Like Dashiell Hammett, Dorst conveys a hard-bitten love of the physical San Francisco.” —New York Times Book Review In the same way Buffy the Vampire Slayermixed high school and bloodsuckers, Doug Dorst combines cops and ghosts in his Alive in Necropolis. The result is a haunted variation on Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct series…Imaginative and accomplished… Pitch-perfect.” —USA Today Rich, unsettling...truly haunting.” —San Francisco ChronicleAn intriguing mix of coming-of-age story, police procedural, and magical realism.” —Seattle-Times

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal813/.6

SynopsisA "dark and funny debut"( Seattle-Times ) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living. Colma, California, the "cemetery city" serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be.