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David Oppegaard -- The Suicide Collectors (with Geoff Herbach)
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Time: Thursday, January 22, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Location: Common Good Books
David Oppegaard was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in the small town of Lake Crystal, Minnesota. Lake Crystal had a population of 2,003 at the time and David spent a lot of time playing football, reading books, and cracking wise. He wrote his first book at the age of fifteen, a 400-page tour de force that will never, under any circumstances, see the light of day.
David holds a B.A. in English Literature from St. Olaf College and an
M.F.A. in Writing from Hamline University. A finalist for the Indiana
Review Fiction Award and the Iowa Fiction Award, David has worked as an optician, a standardized test scorer, a farm hand, an editorial assistant, a trash picker for St. Paul public housing, a library circulation assistant, and as a child minder on a British cruise ship.
THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS is his publishing debut.
Also appearing will be David's friend Geoff Herbach in support of his first novel, The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg.
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The Suicide Collectors(Hardcover (Cloth))
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Oppegaard, David
Format: Hardcover (Cloth)
Price:
$23.95
Published: St. Martin's Press, 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
The Despair has plagued the earth for five years. Most of the world's population has inexplicably died by its own hand, and the few survivors struggle to remain alive. A mysterious, shadowy group called the Collectors has emerged, inevitably appearing to remove the bodies of the dead. But in the crumbling state of Florida, a man named Norman takes an unprecedented stand against the Collectors, propelling him on a journey across North America. It's rumored a scientist in Seattle is working on a cure for the Despair, but in a world ruled by death, it won't be easy to get there.
Reviews for THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS
"Just when it seems that there are no new plots left to write about, David Oppegaard has come up with a doozy. His THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS takes us to a startling theme we haven't encountered before, with every page a thrilling new surprise."
-Stan Lee, writer, editor, & former Marvel Comics chairman
"Eloquent prose and haunting characters lift Oppegaard's astonishing debut..."
-Publisher's Weekly, starred review
"Oppegaard demonstrates a terrific sense of the macabre with absorbing sequences featuring feral children, a house papered in suicide notes, and other relics of a dying society. He also articulately ponders why such a plague might materialize."
-Kirkus Reviews
"David Oppegaard's THE SUICIDE COLLECTORS is a wonderfully creepy debut novel filled with unnerving twists and turns! Unsettling, bleak, and dangerous."
- Bram Stoker Award-Winning Jonathan Maberry, author of GHOST ROAD BLUES
"Oppegaard's big bad is an abstraction, but it engenders very concrete terrors. I was reminded of Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which in my book is as good as it gets."
-Mike Carey, author of THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
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The Miracle Letters of T. Rimberg(Trade Paperback)
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Herbach, Geoff
Format: Trade Paperback
Price:
$14.00
Published: Three Rivers Press (CA), 2008
Inventory Status: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
"Believe the hype. I killed myself."
Having destroyed his life, the suicidal T. Rimberg strikes out on a journey through history and geography. From Minneapolis to Europe to a fiery accident near Green Bay, he searches for a father who is likely dead, digs for meaning where he's sure there is none, fires off suicide letters to family, celebrities, presidents, and football stars, and lands in a hospital bed across from a priest who believes that Rimberg has caused a miracle. This funny, moving novel asks us to consider the nature of second chances and the unexpected form that grace sometimes takes.
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