Deeply in love with his beautiful and wilful wife, Harry Briggs can't imagine life without her. But he can, and does, imagine death with her. After a fatal swimming accident the couple meet again, in a supernatural community, where everything has changed. By the author of "A Manhattan Ghost Story".
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Sleepeasy? I doubt it!,
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This review is from: Sleepeasy (Mass Market Paperback)
Usually a hero's demise is a good indication that end of the story is near. That's not the case with Sleepeasy, as the chief protagonist's death is merely the beginning of one of the strangest road trips ever chronicled.After passing away, Harry Briggs finds himself in another reality, which he slowly comes to realize must be the afterlife. Rather than heaven or hell or limbo, the hereafter seems to be what each individual makes of it, composed of the people and setting most important to that individual. It seems also that each person's afterlife is unique. Breaking the mold, Harry becomes a distinct part of his deceased wife's reality. Already an anomaly, Harry creates further trouble when, pursuing his afterlife fantasy of becoming a private detective, he creates an unearthly serial killer so powerful that he is able to cross back into the "real" world, where he begins to fulfill his murderous destiny. Harry travels back to set things straight and subdue his creation. It wouldn't be fair to reveal any more details about the book--I'll leave those pleasurable discoveries to you. Sleepeasy is a clever, witty, thoughtful novel if there ever was one, and finds the author at the top of his considerable form. Wright hooks his readers within the first four pages and never relinquishes his grip--the audience is ready to follow Harry anywhere, and that's just where Wright takes them, providing plenty of food for thought along the way. With its take on the afterlife as unique and powerful as Richard Matheson's What Dreams May Come, Sleepeasy is a book you'll hate to put down.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Sleepeasy might keep you up late, reading until the end.,
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When Harry Briggs dies he finds himself playacting the role of hardboiled P.I. in the afterlife, searching for a 'missing' woman. But as Harry adjusts to the afterlife, his imagination begins to spice things up. It creates a super villain for his P.I. persona to track, a serial killer that looks like more than a bit like 40's noir character actor Sydney Greenstreet. Things take a turn for the worse when Harry's 'rat puppy' (read the novel and find out what it means) breaks its leash and crosses over to the corporeal world, racking up victims that begin clogging the engimatic afterlife Harry has stumbled into.Sleepeasy is part of the slightly connected cycle of Dark Fantasy afterlife/ghost novels, which include A Manhattan Ghost Story and The Waiting Room, that T.M. Wright has been writing over the years. Each novel is a well crafted tale that is a delight to read (if you are in the mood for surreal, reality bending supernatural antics that walk the tightrope between playful and frightening that is), but gain more power when seen as a part of a larger, more complex vision. T.M. Wright is a dark fantasist that deserves a much larger readership than he has now. Highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a serendipitous stumble,
By Adam Knight (iraq-army) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sleepeasy (Mass Market Paperback)
I was in the Delaware USO and stumbled upon this book. I read it straight through and have never read anything like it. Although there are disturbingly vivid scenes it reads more like a science fiction work than horror. I don't know what genre to place it, but this work of fiction is imaginative, original, and offers a different opinion (well based) on the afterlife.
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