The Rooms of Heaven by Mary Allen - ISBN: 9780679776567
Paperback
Love, loss, addiction: a journey to madness, back to self.

The Rooms of Heaven

A Memoir

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    15 May 2000

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Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780679776567
ISBN-10:0679776567
Author:Mary Allen
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Vintage Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:15 May 2000
Weight:352g
Dimensions:208mm x 135mm x 13mm
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Critics Review

“A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing. This book is all that and more.” —Chicago Tribune

“Wrenching in its spare, humble prose….It will stay with you.” —Esquire

“Intelligent, humorous, unsentimental… [The Rooms of Heaven] convince[s] us that the mystery of love is indeed far greater and more profound than the mystery of death.” —Elle

About The Author

Mary Allen

Mary Allen lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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