Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 24/04/2009,
Pagination: 128 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Canongate Books,
Published By: Canongate Books,
Book Classification: Humanities,
Dimensions: 176 x 111 x 11
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781847674272
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.
In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.