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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax : A Novel by Liz Jensen (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN-10
1582345171
ISBN-13
9781582345178
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43122566
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ninth Life of Louis Drax : a Novel
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Psychological, Family Life, General
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-044009
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Wonderfully strange.An affecting psychological novel about transgression and the mysteries of the subconscious., A gripping and intelligent psychological thriller filled with crafty insights, black humor and grim twists…Fresh and original., A gripping and intelligent psychological thriller filled with crafty insights, black humor and grim twists.Fresh and original., A gripping and intelligent psychological thriller filled with crafty insights, black humor and grim twists...Fresh and original., Wonderfully strange...An affecting psychological novel about transgression and the mysteries of the subconscious., Wonderfully strange…An affecting psychological novel about transgression and the mysteries of the subconscious., For everybody who thought they'd never see another novel like The Lovely Bones...Disarmingly comical, absorbingly suspenseful, and finally shattering., For everybody who thought they'd never see another novel likeThe Lovely Bones...Disarmingly comical, absorbingly suspenseful, and finally shattering., One of our best writers, sometimes surreal, sometimes down to earth, always with a great and embracing human sympathy.
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
Coming soon as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English PatientMeet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy.Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in a constant state of panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic.Was the fall really an accident? If anyone knows, they're not telling. Until one day, still deep within his coma, Louis meets the bandaged figure who calls himself Gustave, and begins to tell his tale...The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide., Coming soon as a major motion picture by Anthony Minghella, Oscar-winning director of The English Patient Meet Louis Drax, the Amazing Accident-Prone Boy. Louis Drax is a boy like no other. He is brilliant and strange, and every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in a constant state of panic. He has always managed to survive-to land on his feet, like a cat. But cats have only nine lives, and Louis has used up eight, one for every year. On his ninth birthday, Louis goes on a picnic with his parents and falls off a cliff. The details are shrouded in mystery. Louis's mother is shell-shocked; his father has vanished. And after some confusion Louis himself, miraculously alive but deep in a coma, arrives at Dr. Pascal Dannachet's celebrated coma clinic. Was the fall really an accident? If anyone knows, they're not telling. Until one day, still deep within his coma, Louis meets the bandaged figure who calls himself Gustave, and begins to tell his tale... The Ninth Life of Louis Drax is the story of a family falling apart, told in the vivid voices of its comatose son and Dr. Dannachet as he is drawn into the Draxes' circle. Full of astonishing twists and turns, this is a masterful tale of the secrets the human mind can hide.
LC Classification Number
PR6060.E55N56 2004
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