Letters from a Living Dead Man

About this book

A correspondent signs his letters 'X', but he is said to be writing from the other side of death. He describes what it is like to continue thinking, wanting and learning when the physical body is gone.

Elsa Barker records fifty-four letters she attributed to an unseen communicator. Their subjects range from the first adjustment to death to desire, memory and moral responsibility. The letters accumulate slowly, allowing small observations about memory and feeling to build a portrait of the life Barker believed continued beyond death.