Author | Shelley Jackson |
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Cover artist | Jacket design by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel, alternate history |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Publication date | July 25, 2006 |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 440 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
ISBN | 978-0-06-088235-8 (first edition, hardcover) |
OCLC | 63165002 |
813/.54 22 | |
LC Class | PS3560.A2448 H35 2006 |
Half Life is the 2006 debut novel of American writer and artist Shelley Jackson. The novel presupposes an alternate history in which the atomic bomb resulted in a genetic preponderance of conjoined twins, who eventually become a minority subculture.