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Zusatztext "This is a book for readers who want to sink in and stay awhile." Informationen zum Autor Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review , won the Alex Award, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, The New York Times , Chicago Tribune , and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water , based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar–winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters , which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly ’s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com. Klappentext "The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages."-- Zusammenfassung From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the “utterly riveting” ( Entertainment Weekly ) tale of a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century. May 7! 1896. Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is gunned down by the shores of Lake Michigan. But after mere minutes in the void! he is mysteriously resurrected. His second life will be nothing like his first. Zebulon’s new existence begins as a sideshow attraction in a traveling medicine show. From there he will be poked and prodded by a scientist obsessed with mastering the secrets of death. He will fight in the trenches of World War I. He will run from his nightmares—and from poverty—in Depression-era New York City. And he will become the companion of the most beautiful woman in Hollywood. Love! hate! hope! and horror—Zebulon finds them. But will he ever find redemption? “Fearlessly weaving gore! love! philosophy! and social justice issues into one sharp whole” ( BCCB )! The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch! Volume One: At the Edge of Empire is the epic saga of what it means to be human in a world so often lacking in humanity. ...
