The Rooms of Heaven

Name: The Rooms of Heaven
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ISBN: 9780679776567

A Memoir

Mary Allen

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English

Vintage Books
15 May 2000

Biography: general

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.

By: Mary Allen
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: 15 May 2000
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