The Rooms of Heaven

The Rooms of Heaven A Memoir

Paperback (11 Apr 2000)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A riveting memoir that explores the uncharted territory between passion and addiction, grief and madness, this world and the next. 

"A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing" -Chicago Tribune

When Mary Allen falls in love with Jim Beaman, she doesn't know he has a drug problem, but she does sense demons and angels around him, like "a disturbance in the air, a sound just beyond the register of human hearing." And when Jim-discouraged and depressed, struggling with his addiction-kills himself a year into their relationship, Allen is unable to let him go. In her desperate attempts to recover from the loss, she uses a Ouija board and automatic writing to pull back from reality into the dark recesses of her mind, where she believes she can find him. The result is a mesmerizing trip across the boundaries between this world and the afterlife, a journey that leads her to the brink of insanity and ultimately back to herself.

Book information

ISBN: 9780679776567
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 352g
Height: 208mm
Width: 135mm
Spine width: 13mm