New York: Hyperion, 2003-09. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 196 pages; coffee stain on jacket, some light edge wear; Killed in a tragic accident, Eddie, an elderly man who believes that he had an uninspired life, awakens in the afterlife, where he discovers that heaven consists of having five people explain the meaning of one's life.
New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1985-10. Book Club. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 302 pages; light edge wear to jacket and boards; Ivor Speke is a man who leads a quiet life in a quietly frozen past. The loss of his closest friend - barrister Vivian Winter - by a brutal and apparently senseless murder, pierces the fragile surface of his melancholy. Gradually he is stirred to try to make sense of her death...
