The Land of Later On
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1612182259 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 210 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Kip has a quest: to find his beloved Lucy, a yoga teacher who shared his apartment for years but died of leukemia before he took his own life. Kip—a New York jazz pianist whose career was cut short by a neurological disease—returns from a failed suicide attempt with a vivid, detailed memory of his journey through the afterlife. Resembling the world as he knows it, but unlimited in space and time, it’s unlike any eternity he has contemplated. Is she still here? Has she waited for him, or “gone back” to become someone else? In his odyssey across centuries and locales (Istanbul to the Marquesas Islands, India to Oklahoma and New Guinea) to find her, Kip is guided by Walt Whitman—who urges him to write this memoir on his return.. Its residents are those who choose not to reincarnate, which would erase all memory of who they once were
He recently edited two books of his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting. As a journalist he traveled through Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the Pacific, Central America and the Caribbean, for National Geographic, G.Q., Forbes, GEO, the Paris Review, the New York Times Magazine, etc. His poems and stories have appeared widely. He is also well known as a musician. Anthony Weller was born in 1957. His books include novels—The Garden of the
“Author Anthony Weller’s short novel about a bewildering but intriguing life after death is a feat of imagination and writingThe Land of Later On reads like a grownup’s bedtime story that the likable Kip is relating under the most fraught and urgent circumstances. When you leave this not-so-strange world, you may fall asleep, but Kip has the power to penetrate dreams." -Rockford Register Star
Glad there will be a print version, too Ken Lopez Good books arrive like gifts from some better place - where there is more perspective, more wisdom, more kindness and love. Anthony Weller's book purports to be just such a volume -- a guidebook to the Afterlife, and counter-guidebook to wrong-headed ideas we may have about it -- and it succeeds in becoming what it describes: a guide not only to what matters most in this life -- love, the companionship of good friends, and good music, Weller's main character Kip might say -- but also to what is powerful enough to survive . Another Sojourn Among the Dead The blurb on the front cover of the book reads: "wonderfully enticing and deeply, achingly moving." The first half of this statement is undoubtedly true; the second half is most certainly not. This will perhaps sound more harsh than I intend it. Weller's book is a short, fast and--for the most part--pleasurable read. And the Land of Later On is a fascinating place. Indeed, one can easily imagine the book becoming a movie--and a good movie at that. Perhaps even, I am sorry to say, better than the book. I'm still struggling. Kenneth Jones said A guide to the afterlife, perhaps. This story takes place in the afterlife as envisioned by the author. A unique and imaginative scenario in which the recently departed can return to familiar surroundings, meet others who have preceded them in death, travel in time, and choose to return by way of reincarnation. It makes for a fascinating voyage through the afterlife, in this case guided by no other than Walt Whitman. If you have ever wondered what it will be like after your time on earth is finished, this is one possibility, albeit not a likely one!