Vigil

Résumé · Not for the first time - in fact, for the 343rd time - Jill `Doll´ Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others. For powerful oil tycoon K.J.Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it... isn’t it? In this electric novel brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, asking the inevitable question: who else could we be but exactly who we are?