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The Living and the Dead

DiFrancesco, Alessandro
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1591353224820624

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2020, Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
With her grandmother’s recent passing, Sunny and her family await the arrival of her “living copy,” a holographic figure that the Wyoming Valley Associated Fuel Extraction Company has compiled from all her grandmother’s pictures, letters, and ephemera as a thank you for the family’s loyal service, over the years, to the company. Sunny’s grandmother (and the living copy) have always told her ghost stories -- stories of women walking through the night in an old coal mining village called Concrete City, in the ghost town of Centralia -- but while exploring these sites, Sunny begins to see ghosts herself. It is up to her and her friend Tate, and her uncle Mickey to find out the truth of these tales, and the dark history of Sunny’s family. While Sunny races to see whether the stories are true or she’s losing her mind, she and her companions travel through abandoned towns, haunted ruins, and old mental hospitals. And through it all, Sunny’s grandmother’s ominous warning echoes -- “Fear the living, not the dead.”
Imad Rahman (Advisor)
David Giffles (Committee Member)
Mary Biddinger (Committee Member)
269 p.
American History; American Literature
novel, creative writing, experimental, genre fiction, speculative fiction

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  • DiFrancesco, A. (2020). The Living and the Dead [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1591353224820624

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • DiFrancesco, Alessandro. The Living and the Dead. 2020. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1591353224820624.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • DiFrancesco, Alessandro. "The Living and the Dead." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1591353224820624

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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