{"publishers": ["A. Knopf"], "number_of_pages": 307, "ia_box_id": ["IA138709"], "subject_place": ["Phoenix (Ariz.)", "Arizona"], "pagination": "307 p. ;", "covers": [418607], "local_id": ["urn:sfpl:31223055570676", "urn:sfpl:31223055570692", "urn:bwbsku:T2-CGI-303"], "ia_loaded_id": ["quickdead00will"], "key": "/books/OL6783822M", "authors": [{"key": "/authors/OL240632A"}], "publish_places": ["New York"], "subjects": ["Teenage girls -- Fiction", "Maternal deprivation -- Fiction", "Female friendship -- Fiction", "Suburban life -- Fiction", "Orphans -- Fiction", "Phoenix (Ariz.) -- Fiction", "Arizona -- Fiction"], "uri_descriptions": ["Contributor biographical information", "Sample text", "Publisher description"], "edition_name": "1st ed.", "genres": ["Fiction."], "source_records": ["marc:marc_records_scriblio_net/part01.dat:8938218:1152", "marc:marc_loc_updates/v36.i51.records.utf8:5875:1110", "ia:quickdead00will", "marc:marc_openlibraries_sanfranciscopubliclibrary/sfpl_chq_2018_12_24_run02.mrc:211384501:1945", "marc:marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part01.utf8:19644557:1110", "bwb:9780679446460", "promise:bwb_daily_pallets_2022-03-17", "marc:marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-006.mrc:279026928:2444"], "title": "The quick and the dead", "url": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00034912.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random041/00034912.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/00034912.html"], "identifiers": {"librarything": ["83899"], "goodreads": ["1943562"]}, "languages": [{"key": "/languages/eng"}], "publish_date": "2000", "publish_country": "nyu", "by_statement": "Joy Williams.", "works": [{"key": "/works/OL1998534W"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "uris": ["http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random052/00034912.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random041/00034912.html", "http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random041/00034912.html"], "ocaid": "quickdead00will", "isbn_10": ["067944646X"], "lccn": ["00034912"], "classifications": {}, "dewey_decimal_class": ["813/.54"], "lc_classifications": ["PS3573.I4496 Q53 2000", "PS3573.I4496Q53 2000"], "oclc_numbers": ["44090491"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"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.\n\nA 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.\n\nWith nature thoroughly routed and the ambiguities of existence on full display, life and death continue in directions both invisible and apparent.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 15, "revision": 15, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-07-13T17:36:50.794565"}}