ASIN: B00MZDS1NI
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 260
Stories within stories, endings within endings. George King discovers a manuscript while going through his recently deceased mother’s effects. His father says the manuscript simply appeared on her computer at the Maryland hospital where she worked as a surgeon—twenty-five years earlier—and advises George not to read it.He ignores the advice and reads the narrative in a white heat. English teacher Steven Vaughan is shot in the head by one of his students, Freeman Ames, in the opening page. Vaughan floats out of his body where he observes the action of the rest of the story as a disembodied spirit. There follows a hostage crisis in the classroom, a trial filled with unpredictable twists and flamboyant lawyers, and a flashback to events that nearly destroyed Vaughan’s family on a lake in Maine.Through it all, a being of light guides Vaughan’s spirit while his body lies in a coma. He exists ...
