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100 1  MacLeod, Alison,|d1964-|eauthor. 
245 10 All the beloved ghosts :|bstories /|cAlison MacLeod. 
250    First U.S. edition. 
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury,|c2017. 
300    237 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    From 1920s Nova Scotia to the London riots of 2011, from 
       Oscar Wilde’s grave to the Brighton Pavilion, these 
       exquisitely formed stories capture the small tragedies and
       profound truths of existence.  Evocative, sensual, and 
       tender, these stories confront reality culture and 
       interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming 
       to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.   A 
       professor of cardiovascular physiology lingers on the cusp
       of consciousness as he waits for his new heart to be 
       delivered, still beating, from another body—and is carried
       on a tidal wave of memories to an attic room half a 
       century ago. Visiting Sylvia Plath’s grave in Yorkshire, 
       the author imagines a conversation with the poet, a fellow
       North American who settled in grey England. She reflects 
       on the treasured photograph of Princess Diana she took as 
       a teenager, one of a multitude taken during a life cut 
       short. And at Charleston, Angelica Garnett, child of the 
       Bloomsbury Group, is overpowered by echoes of the past—all
       the beloved ghosts that spring to life before her eyes. 
       MacLeod’s characters hover on the border of life and death
       , where memory is most vivid and the present most elusive.
650  0 Short stories, English. 
655  7 Short stories.|2lcgft