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Never Let Me Go and Brave New World meet Turtles All the Way Down in a near future where a teen with mental illness becomes the center of seismic change. In a near-future New York, Chester Owens - a tall, lumbering sixteen-year-old with severe social anxiety - clings to routine and tries to remain invisible. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, all Chester knows is Greendale, a secretive, locked-down facility where he and his classmates are t...

Walter Klein can't stop thinking about death. He wonders what would happen if he stuck a knife in his toaster. He wonders if his latest elevator ride will end in the cable snapping and everyone plummeting to their doom. He wonders if today will be the day he dies, but he knows it won't be from a toaster or an elevator. It will be from the cancer. He has refused treatment, and soon the cancer will take him away. There is no hope left. When Walt...

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The first scholarly book-length examination of the work of comics legend Neil Gaiman includes detailed analysis of his best-selling "Sandman" and "Death" series, a look at his work's relationship to Joseph Campbell, and such topics as "Living in a Desacralized World, " "The Relationship of Dreams and Myth in Campbell, Jung, and Gaiman's Sandman, " "Humanization, Change, and Rebirth: The Hero's Journey, " "The Role of the Artist and the Art of ...