DOUG DORST
Saturday, August 2 at 2 p.m.

Doug Dorst's northern California-set debut novel, Alive in Necropolis (Riverhead) offers some imaginative re-presentation of what could be a formula story, taking as it does the perspective of a young police officer. But what an officer, what a town, what a story. "You will never read a more exciting debut than Doug Dorst's funny and fiercely imagined Alive in Necropolis. Here, peace officers patrol a city of cemeteries, and the living and the dead walk the same streets and lawns, haunting each other's worlds. Prophetlike, Dorst can place his hand on the marble of a tomb and conjure the human story within. Alive in Necropolis contains the mystery, grace and glow of the human soul. So open this book, step into its light." - Adam Johnson, joined in early praise by Dan Chaon, Thom Jones, Stephen Elliott, Julie Orringer, Publishers Weekly, and others.

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