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Expiration Date

by Tim Powers

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ISBN13: 9780765317520
ISBN10: 0765317524
Condition: Standard
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Los Angeles is filled with ghosts — and half-ghosts, and ghost hunters, and ghost junkies — chasing each other in a mad quest for immortality. As a series of disasters strikes Los Angeles, a young boy inhales the last breath of Thomas Edison, and becomes a precious prize in a deadly hunt for the elusive vital spark. Brimming with the wild imagination and heart-stopping escapades that won Tim Powers the World Fantasy Award, Expiration Date is an exuberant and inventive tale from one of fantasy’s most original talents.

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Growing up in the L.A. of the 1990s, all young Koot Parganas wants is to be normal, but his weird parents won't allow it. They venerate the spirits of dead Mahatmas. Feeling he has no alternative, Koot disobeys his parents and breaks into a bust of Dante and steals a small glass vial that was concealed inside the bust. The vial contains the preserved ghost of Thomas Edison. Now, aided by allies as strange as his enemies, Koot is pursued through the dark underside of the city.

About the Author

Tim Powers is the astonishingly popular author of The Anubis Gates (winner of the Philip K. Dick Award), On Stranger Tides, The Stress of Her Regard, Last Call, which won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Earthquake Weather, and Declare Powers lives in Muscoy, California.

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ISBN:
9780765317520
Author:
Powers, Tim
Publisher:
Orb Books
Subject:
Fantasy - Contemporary
Subject:
Los angeles (calif.)
Subject:
Fantasy fiction
Publication Date:
March 2007
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
381
Dimensions:
925x638x100 93

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