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Safe in heaven dead : a novel / Samuel Ligon.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.I46 S34 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ligon, Samuel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political corruption--Fiction.
- Political corruption.
- Rehabilitation counselors.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Fathers and sons--Fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Runaway husbands--Fiction.
- Runaway husbands.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Rehabilitation counselors--Fiction.
- Graduate students--Fiction.
- Graduate students.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Political fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2003]
- Summary:
- Everything is rolling along smoothly for Robert Elgin. He and his wife, Laura, have a loving marriage, and two perfect kids. When Robert is recruited by the county executive's office to conspire in some dirty negotiations that would grease the executive's run for Governor, his perfect life begins to crumble. And to make matters worse, Robert learns that his five-year-old daughter has been molested by the twelve-year-old neighbor.
- While his wife becomes obsessed with grief counselors, rape specialists, being saved by Jesus, and putting the twelve-year-old behind bars, Robert finds himself losing touch with his family and losing his grip on reality. When he learns of a secret fund the executive's office has been skimming off the public employees, he takes the money and runs. And so begins Robert's life as a dead man...
- ISBN:
- 0060099100
- OCLC:
- 51947309
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