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    The King is Dead

    By Jim Lewis

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    A soulful, illuminating novel of love, murder and redemption, from a rising star on the American literary scene.

    One hot, dark night in Memphis, Walter Selby finds himself wandering alone in the parking lot outside a baseball stadium, trying to find his friend. Instead he finds his future wife, Nicole, illuminated by the headlights of a passing car. In that empty car-lot, the perfect setting for an archetypal American romance, they begin a long, lovely fall – into bed, into marriage, into parenthood, into responsibility.

    A generation later Walter’s son Frank, now a grown man himself, is also alone in Memphis, trying to find a trace of two parents who faded from view while he was still a child. His sister Gail is building a new family for herself on the other side of the continent, while his precious daughter Amy slips further from him with each passing year. Frank’s life seems to be racing away in a flurry of wrong decisions and lost moments, with nothing to show for it. And yet if Frank’s life is anywhere, it is in his family, in these men and women, their lives and their passing. This is their story.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 11, 2013
    ISBN9780007393008
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    The King is Dead
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    Jim Lewis

    James, M Lewis, DMD attended the University of Alabama and earned his dental degree from the School of Dentistry, University of Alabama, Birmingham, in 1985. He has maintained a general dentistry practice since that time, exclusively in Madison, AL since 1986. Dr. Lewis completed a Fellowship in Forensic Odontology from the Center for Education and Research in Forensics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2001. As a forensic odontologist, he assisted in victim identification in New York following the World Trade Center attack; and since 2003, he has served as a consultant to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences (ADFS). And, is a volunteer to the Alabama Office of Emergency Preparedness in relation to its mass disaster response group. Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of Odontology Section of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS), became board certified by the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO) in 2008, has served on the Board of Governors of the American Society of Forensic Odontology (ASFO) and President of the organization in 2012. For the American Board of Forensic Odontology (ABFO), he served as member and Chair of the Dental Age Assessment Committee, 2008 – 2015; as a member of the Certification and Examination Committee, 2011 – 2015; Bitemark Evidence and Patterned Injury Committee, 2008 – 2015 and 2017; and currently holds the Office of ABFO Secretary. He is currently appointed to the Odontology Subcommittee, Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Dr. Lewis is on faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Dentistry, Fellowship in Forensic Odontology at The University of Tennessee, Graduate School of Medicine and adjunct faculty for the Center for Education and Research in Forensics (CERF), Fellowship in Forensic Odontology; and, the SW Symposium on Forensic Dentistry. He has authored text book chapters and articles in pier reviewed journals on forensic odontology.

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    • 4/5
      As someone earlier reviewed, I also bought and read this book because of the favorable Jeffrey Eugenides review. That said, this isn't really close to the caliber of Eugenides's best work (Middlesex imo) but does show promise for this author. This is a complex book about race, politics, and family. I thought the greatest moments of the novel were centered on the father who is a speech writer to the governor. I also thought another strength of this novel were the insights into humanity shown here both in terms of our best qualities and our very realistic tragic flaws.


      Favorite Quotes:

      pg. 47, "Not at all, said Nicole, who just moments earlier had been measuring the century for solitude."

      pg. 134 "She nodded but she wasn't prepared for eternity...Oh God, save something from all this. But God wouldn't come. He was watching very closely but he wouldn't come."

      pg. 195 "Summers end in tears and decades end in madness."

    • 3/5
      One of the oddest books I have read in a while. Sort of like Paul Auster meets Joyce Carol Oates. It reminds me of some older novel about a woman taking on someone else's identity, but perhaps it's my imagination. Clever, with the right combination of innocent vulnerability and absolute violence. An evocative title that also evokes some earlier time.......