Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...
Johnny and the Dead
Johnny and the Dead
Synopsis
The local council plans to sell the old cemetery to a developer. Johnny Maxwell discovers that the dead buried there are still around — the recently deceased kind who have not quite figured out what comes next — and that they have opinions about the redevelopment. With the help of the local ghosts, Johnny mounts an unlikely public campaign to save the graveyard. The second Johnny Maxwell novel, which turns out to be quietly about the relationship between the living and their responsibilities to those who came before them.
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Genres
Characters
Johnny MaxwellProtagonist
The boy who can see the dead, and who is the only one in his town who thinks the cemetery matters.
Mr VicentiSupporting
One of the dead — a former resident of the cemetery who is considerably more interested in the modern world than most of the other ghosts.
Subjects
Places
Edition
Johnny and the DeadPaperback, May
199 pages
CorgiISBN: 97805525511205 editions available
