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The Rooms of Heaven

A Memoir

Mary Allen

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English
Vintage Books
15 May 2000
A riveting memoir that explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, this world and the next.

""A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing"" -Chicago Tribune

When Mary Allen falls in love with Jim Beaman, she doesn't know he has a drug problem, but she does sense demons and angels around him, like ""a disturbance in the air, a sound just beyond the register of human hearing."" And when Jim-discouraged and depressed, struggling with his addiction-kills himself a year into their relationship, Allen is unable to let him go. In her desperate attempts to recover from the loss, she uses a Ouija board and automatic writing to pull back from reality into the dark recesses of her mind, where she believes she can find him. The result is a mesmerizing trip across the boundaries between this world and the afterlife, a journey that leads her to the brink of insanity and ultimately back to herself.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   352g
ISBN:   9780679776567
ISBN 10:   0679776567
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

MARY ALLEN lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Reviews for The Rooms of Heaven: A Memoir

Wrenching in its spare, humble prose....It will stay with you. --Esquire Intelligent, humorous, unsentimental...[The Rooms of Heaven] convince[s] us that the mystery of love is indeed far greater and more profound than the mystery of death. --Francine Prose, Elle


  • Commended for Society of Midland Authors Award (Biography) 2000

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