Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore

A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.

Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman's Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try?

Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to get it right. Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything.

Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn't make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her.

More than just Milo's lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living--as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he'll never have to leave her side again.

But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle--if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. As darkly enchanting as the works of Neil Gaiman and as wisely hilarious as Kurt Vonnegut's, Michael Poore's Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking.

Because it's more than Milo and Suzie's story. It's your story, too.

Praise for Reincarnation Blues

The most fun you'll have reading about a man who has been killed by both catapult and car accident.--NPR

This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.--Chicago Review of Books

Charming . . . surprisingly light and uplifting . . . It reads like a writer having fun.--New York Journal of Books

Poore, Michael: - Michael Poore's work has appeared in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry Review, Fiction, StoryQuarterly, and Glimmer Train and has been nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize. His 2009 story Blood Dauber, written with Nebula Award nominee Ted Kosmatka, appeared in Asimov's and has been nominated for the prestigious Sturgeon Award. It also won the Reader's Choice Award and was selected for inclusion in the 2010 Year's Best Science Fiction anthology. Up Jumps the Devil is his first novel.

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ISBN 13	9780399178481
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Titel	Reincarnation Blues
Autor	Michael Poore
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Verlag	Del Rey Books
Erscheinungsjahr	2017-08-22
Seitenanzahl	384
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