| Will Kennedy is also known as “Dead” Kennedy (DK) for two reasons: His love for alternative music (which is liberally interwoven with the story throughout this book) and the fact that he sees ghosts (which he has tried to downplay for years). Now 32 years old, he is still a serious and deliberate underachiever, has had a series of low level jobs and is just barely “getting by”. He has a kooky family and friends whose dialogue and voices are both laugh-out-loud funny and painfully poignant.
He gets a call from a distant relative he can't even remember, who is having a problem with a ghost in his garage. Tom Hanlon offers Will $1,000 to help him get rid of it. This leads to some serious mishaps that totally alter the course of Will's life. It turns out that the ghost in the garage is there to haunt Tom for killing her. When Tom realizes that Will knows this, he pulls a gun on him. In self-defense, Will douses him with a can of old gasoline just before he pulls the trigger. This ignites the gas and kills Tom, who then begins to haunt Will as revenge. As Will is recovering from his gunshot wound in the hospital, another old family friend who just happens to be a reporter questions him about the “ghost thing”. Happy on pain killers, Will bluffs some nonsense about charging $1,000 per day to help people resolve ghost problems. However, when the story comes out in the paper, Will learns that there are an amazing number of people who want to hire him. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of book - cynical or dry-wit FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy story on current Earth Horror story? Yes Horror plotlets - the ghost chased me! Descript. of chases or violence - 10 % planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40 % Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 10 % Main Character Identity: - Male Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Really unusual traits? Main Adversary Identity: - Male Has magical powers? Yes Eccentric: Yes How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a little/some Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor Intelligence - Average intelligence Setting Takes place on Earth? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths Sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - vague references only - descript of kissing - descript of touching personal anatomy |
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