Half Life: A Novel

ISBN: 0060882360

Author: Jackson, Shelley

Condition: New

Ingenious, sensual, gleeful. . . . It demands of its readers only imagination, and rewards them with hilarity, terror, and marvels.-Jonathan Lethem, author of Motherless BrooklynNora and Blanche are cojoined twins. Nora, the dominant twin, thirsts for love and adventure, while Blanche has been asleep for nearly 30 years. Determined to shed herself of her her sisters dead weight, Nora leaves for London in search of the mysterious Unity Foundation, which promises to make two one.But once Nora arrives in London, the past begins to surface, forcing her into a most reluctant voyage into memory-a search for meaning and understanding, that will push Nora to the brink of insanity. Grotesque, funny, and dazzlingly told, Shelley Jacksons first novel is an imaginative and touching portrait of two lives in a cleft world yearning for wholeness.