Expiration Date

, #2

384 pages

English language

Published 1997

ISBN:
978-0-7653-1752-0
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Los Angeles is filled with ghosts ― and half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies ― chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and becomes a precious prize in a deadly hunt for the elusive vital spark. Brimming with the wild imagination and heart-stopping escapades that won Tim Powers the World Fantasy Award, Expiration Date is an exuberant and inventive tale from one of fantasy's most original talents.

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reviewed Expiration Date by Tim Powers (Fault Lines, #2)

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A boy brought up by theosophists finds and ingests a ghost in a bottle. Los Angeles turns weird; ghosts throng, and the ways of Mexican brujeria are called into play. This is one of the strangest books I have read in a long time and really lives up to Powers's reputation as a fabulist. After a while the reader begins to accept the Alice-in-Wonderland-like world as real. 

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