The quick and the dead
About this book
"Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents - from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wild-life museum - accompanied by restless, confounded adults. A father lusts after his handsome gardener even as he's haunted (literally) by his dead wife; a heartbroken dog runs afoul of an angry neighbor; a young stroke victim drifts westward, his luck running from worse to awful; a sickly musician for whom Alice develops an attraction is drawn instead toward darker imaginings and solutions; and an aging big-game hunter finds spiritual renewal through his infatuation with an eight-year-old - the formidable Emily Bliss Pickless. With nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent."--BOOK JACKET.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 7105 readers · 308 pages · ≈ 5 h 42 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The quick and the dead?
About ≈ 5 h 42 m — 308 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The quick and the dead?
308 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The quick and the dead?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Is The quick and the dead in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The quick and the dead?
Williams, Joy.