Afterlife Allan Mallinson from a writer hailed as

from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Pricea mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity

of his two best friends: Frank Slattery

who subjects him to endless petty cruelties for daring to step above his station

but also her mothers and her own

gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a 'small war' with devastating consequences

Afterlife Allan Mallinson from a writer hailed asThe seventies. Summer. Four students in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. Two young American women, one hell bent on destruction. Alcohol, LSD, sex, jealousy, infidelity and poetry. At the end of the summer, one of the four students will be dead, and another will be destroyed by his inability to let go of past memories, guilt and bitterness.