| "While the escape from everyday responsibility into total nihilistic freedom may seem a fantasy for some readers, Sam Ligon's heroes find no relief in their double lives. Fully imagined and fluent, Safe in Heaven Dead is a strong and promising debut." Stewart O'Nan |
Robert Elgin has checked out of his life, rendered himself irrelevant, and become invisible. After stumbling upon a secret slush fund his political bosses have been skimming off the public, Elgin takes the money and runs ...
Runs from the corruption of machine politics.
Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor.
Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars.
Runs to New York, where he meets Carla, a doctoral student at Columbia, who, enmeshed in her own world of corruption, is also ready to become invisible, ready to run.
They hit the road, forgetting themselves, but back home in Michigan, where everything has fallen apart, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there. Of course he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back either. And he has to.
A kinetic, spellbinding debut, Safe in Heaven Dead reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world, too, which, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow breeds hope.
Runs from the corruption of machine politics.
Runs from the corrupting of his daughter, molested by a twelve-year-old neighbor.
Runs from his wife's obsession with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars.
Runs to New York, where he meets Carla, a doctoral student at Columbia, who, enmeshed in her own world of corruption, is also ready to become invisible, ready to run.
They hit the road, forgetting themselves, but back home in Michigan, where everything has fallen apart, Elgin's children must wonder what has become of their father. Of course he can't just leave them there. Of course he can't just run away. But he doesn't know how to go back either. And he has to.
A kinetic, spellbinding debut, Safe in Heaven Dead reveals a world of people struggling to do what's right when everything seems wrong, a world of people resisting surrender to the corruption that surrounds them, and a world, too, which, in the face of apparent hopelessness, somehow breeds hope.
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Hardback Editions
April 2003 : Hardback
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March 2003 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
March 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Safe in Heaven Dead: A Novel Author(s): Samuel Ligon ISBN: 0-06-009911-9 / 978-0-06-009911-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Harper Perennial Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2003 : Paperback
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Other Editions
2003 : Unknown
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2003 : Unknown
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