After Life Picture storybooks and Marly needs a job

and Marly needs a job

She has no choice but to team up with her ex-boyfriend

charts his stellar career in the glory days of rock ’n’ roll with giants like EMI and CBS

a Radio 4 Book of the Week

After Life Picture storybooks and Marly needs a jobLife is one of our most basic concepts, and yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. We can see this uncertainty about life in our habit of approaching it as something at once scientific and mystical, in the return of vitalisms of all types, and in the pervasive politicization of life. In short, life seems everywhere at stake and yet is nowhere the same.