A'dark and funny debut'(Seattle-Times) about a young police officer struggling to maintain a sense of reality in a town where the dead outnumber the living.Colma, California, the'cemetery city'serving San Francisco, is the resting place of the likes of Joe DiMaggio, Wyatt Earp, and William Randolph Hearst. It is also the home of Michael Mercer, a by-the-book rookie cop struggling to settle comfortably into adult life. Instead, he becomes obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, Sergeant Wes Featherstone, who spent his last years policing the dead as well as the living. As Mercer attempts to navigate the drama of his own daily life, his own grip on reality starts to slip-either that, or Colma's more famous residents are not resting in peace as they should be.

Doug Dorst

Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed., New York, New York State, 2009

United States, United States of America

New York, ©2008

Reprint, 2009

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) PRAISE FOR Alive in Necropolis
2. (p2) PROLOGUE
3. (p3) PART ONE BOY THIRTEEN
3.1. (p4) ONE FERN GROTTO
3.2. (p5) TWO GO WEST
3.3. (p6) THREE GOOD SHEPHERD
3.4. (p7) FOUR THE WILLOWS
3.5. (p8) FIVE JUDE, AWAKE
3.6. (p9) SIX THE NEPTUNE SOCIETY
3.7. (p10) SEVEN THE GREAT THING ABOUT ALMOST DYING
3.8. (p11) EIGHT VAPOR TRAILS
3.9. (p12) NINE A DEAD MAN'S BATHROBE
3.10. (p13) TEN THE CHILDREN'S SECTION
3.11. (p14) ELEVEN NIGHTWALKING (I)
3.12. (p15) TWELVE THE WGLIEST GODDAMN FISH IN THE WORLD
3.13. (p16) THIRTEEN HARD TEN ON THE HOP
3.14. (p17) FOURTEEN DEATH'S DOOR (I)
3.15. (p18) FIFTEEN DEATH'S DOOR (II)
4. (p19) PART TWO DIE LIKE AN AVIATOR
4.1. (p20) SIXTEEN HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
4.2. (p21) SEVENTEEN SMYTHED
4.3. (p22) EIGHTEEN NIGHTWALKING (II)
4.4. (p23) NINETEEN THE REDEMPTION EXPRESS (I)
4.5. (p24) TWENTY MERCER, AWAKE
4.6. (p25) TWENTY-ONE THE DEAD BUG
4.7. (p26) TWENTY-TWO THE NEPTUNE SOCIETY (II)
4.8. (p27) TWENTY-THREE THE SWEET FREE FALL OUT OF TIME
4.9. (p28) TWENTY-FOUR IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE IN COLMA!
4.10. (p29) TWENTY-FIVE THE REDEMPTION EXPRESS (II)
4.11. (p30) TWENTY-SIX GERALD XAVIER FAHEY B. DECEMBER 1937 D. MARCH 2005 D. MAY 2005
4.12. (p31) TWENTY-SEVEN A TIME TO PLUCK UP
5. (p32) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
6. (p33) ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Navigating adult responsibilities in a California city where the dead outnumber the living, rookie cop Michael Mercer becomes increasingly obsessed with the mysterious fate of his predecessor, an officer who believed he policed the dead.

2023-06-28