The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, ..., Daniel Kraus
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, ..., Daniel Kraus
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The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One
At the Edge of Empire

Author: Daniel Kraus

Narrator: Kirby Heyborne

Unabridged: 22 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/27/2015


Synopsis

From the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Shape of Water comes the “utterly riveting” (Entertainment Weekly) tale of a murdered teen who is resurrected to walk the earth for more than a century.

May 7, 1896.

Dusk. A swaggering seventeen-year-old gangster named Zebulon Finch is gunned down by the shores of Lake Michigan. But after mere minutes in the void, he is mysteriously resurrected.

His second life will be nothing like his first.

Zebulon’s new existence begins as a sideshow attraction in a traveling medicine show. From there he will be poked and prodded by a scientist obsessed with mastering the secrets of death. He will fight in the trenches of World War I. He will run from his nightmares—and from poverty—in Depression-era New York City. And he will become the companion of the most beautiful woman in Hollywood.

Love, hate, hope, and horror—Zebulon finds them. But will he ever find redemption?

“Fearlessly weaving gore, love, philosophy, and social justice issues into one sharp whole” (BCCB), The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, Volume One: At the Edge of Empire is the epic saga of what it means to be human in a world so often lacking in humanity.

About Daniel Kraus

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an LA Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best Book of 2023 from NPR, The New York TimesChicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar–winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Shaun

I honestly don't know how to review this book. Imagine you're watching Forest Gump, only Forest Gump is a corpse, and everything he does turns to shit. That's probably the closest I can come to describing this book. But that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. This is a book that requires pat......more

Goodreads review by Melissa

Trigger warnings - physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicidal thoughts, suicide, racial slurs I am going to start this review off by saying this book is totally misclassified. This is in no way, shape or form a YA book. The only thing that would classify this in that genre is the fact that the main chara......more

Goodreads review by maria

Thank you to Simon & Schuster Canada for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. DNF'd 172 pages in This was really unfortunate. I was so intrigued by the premise of this story and I just really could not get in to it. Even the cover grabbed me as soon as I saw it, so when it was offered......more