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02172aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 F392D26A3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 230327s2023 sa 000 f eng d 020 $a 1770108378 020 $a 9781770108370 035 $a (OCoLC)1374058932 040 $a Z@L $b eng $e rda $c Z@L $d OCLCF $d ZCU $d Z6B $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9369.4.T56 $b I57 2023 100 1 $a Thompson, Jarred , $e author 245 14 $a The Institute for creative dying : $b a novel / $c Jarred Thompson. 264 1 $a Johannesburg : $b Picador Africa, an imprint of Pan Macmillan South Africa, $c 2023. 300 $a 333 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "You wouldn't know it was there, the unnumbered house behind the iron-grille gate, just below the craggy rocks of Northcliff ridge. To the untrained eye the rambling property might seem neglected, with its tangle of trees and untamed indigenous bush. But there is purpose here, and a peaceful, subterranean, focus on all that withers and dies. Five strangers - a model, a former nun, a couple in crisis, and an offender newly released from prison - have come here, to this place, to discover an end to life as they've known it. Placing their trust in their hosts, the Mortician and Mustafa, the five open their minds and bodies to an alternative experience. Not all of them will survive - or at least not in the way they imagined - but all of them will be shown the limits of their living.The Institute for Creative Dying is vivid and visceral, unique in its bold and imaginative exploration of mortality and the interconnectedness of all forms of being"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a South African fiction $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Death $x Moral and ethical aspects. 650 0 $a Mortality. 650 0 $a Life. 650 7 $a Death $x Moral and ethical aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00888634 650 7 $a Life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01198505 650 7 $a Mortality. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01026502 655 0 $a English Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F392D26A3D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search