{"product_id":"9781681375472","title":"Live; live; live","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The lapping of the waves was a lesson in mortality. Sometimes the corrective would work, and his turmoil would recede. The sound secured him, as the contemplation of a skull might make a penitent secure. And sometimes it was more than a corrective: it brought elation . . . \"Live,\" it urged, with each whisper of the water. \"Live; live; live.\" Leaning forward, Lucas repeated the words with too much fervor, to make sure that the lesson was not lost on me. This was his mission: not to help people to keep hold of the past, but to help them to live. Jonathan Buckley's latest novel, Live; live; live, is a subtly suspenseful and slow-burning story about the occult as a source of psychological and existential truth. Lucas is a man with a gift: He hears the dead speaking. Josh lives next door, just a boy when he first meets his mysterious, kind neighbor. But as he grows up, his instructive friendship with Lucas is gradually altered by desire: Josh's attraction to, then obsession with Erin, the much younger woman with whom Lucas lives. The nature of her relationship to Lucas is unclear and unclassifiable: Is it erotic, platonic, pedagogical? And is Lucas a sham or a kind of shaman? Is Josh really a reliable witness? At the heart of this powerful and resonant novelare timely questions about narrative truth and timeless questions about life, death, and belief. There are no certainties in Live; live; live, only mutability, permeability, and the beautifully observed cadence of change\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48989966762219,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.03,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781681375472-1.jpg?v=1783383620","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781681375472","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}