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Gr 8 Up—Finch, a teenage runaway, is murdered in 1896—about 50 pages into this behemoth of a novel, which proceeds through his inexplicable reanimation and well into the 20th century. He's not fully alive, but he cannot die and, thus, he is a Zelig-like participant in matters as consequential as World War I, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Kraus's fascination with decaying, rotting human flesh, as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In 1896, seventeen-year-old Chicago gangster Zebulon Finch is shot, killed, and mysteriously resurrected. In picaresque fashion, he chronicles h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More