THE LIVELY DEAD

by Peter Dickinson ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 16, 1975

Who knows what will pop up under the dry-rotting floorboards or a rosebush outside the house that Lydia Timms owns and is trying to put in shape with a crowbar or a claw-hammer? Perhaps even a spy in the basement. Since two floors have been let to the Livonian government--one of those amorphous Balkan states--represented by ""harmless old dreamers"" in exile . . . or are ""their dreams nightmares""? Their charlady, on the tipple, has recently died but her body does not stay put and there's a reversal of roles, political, of almost everyone excluding the deceased's daughter who is a most attractive ""embodied impulse"" even though she's in jail. Peter Dickinson upstages almost everyone around with his distinctively different, stylish and literate entertainments.

Pub Date: July 16, 1975

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Pantheon

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1975

Categories: FICTION