{"product_id":"next-life-might-be-kinder-9780547712123","title":"Next Life Might Be Kinder","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNext Life Might Be Kinder\u003c\/strong\u003e by Norman, Howard. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780547712123.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp;;After my wife, Elizabeth Church, was murdered by the bellman Alfonse Padgett in the Essex Hotel, she did not leave me.\u0026amp;;\n\nSam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman\u0026amp;;s spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth\u0026amp;;s murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam\u0026amp;;s life afterward is complicated. For one thing, in a moment of desperate confusion, he sells his life story to a Norwegian filmmaker named Istvakson, known for the stylized violence of his films, whose artistic drive sets in motion an increasingly intense cat-and-mouse game between the two men. For another, Sam has begun \u0026amp;;seeing\u0026amp;; Elizabeth\u0026amp;;not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach. What at first seems simply hallucination born of terrible grief reveals itself, evening by evening, as something else entirely.\nNext Life Might Be Kinder is a story of murder, desperate faith, the afterlife, and of love as absolute redemption\u0026amp;;from one of our most compelling storytellers at the height of his talents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212609151029,"sku":"ByrdShop_054771212X","price":59.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780547712123_41542f5b-0406-4802-b254-d28939dc602f.jpg?v=1779903289","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/next-life-might-be-kinder-9780547712123","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}