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Specimen Days (Paperback)
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Specimen Days (Paperback)
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List price R584
Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
You Save R51 (9%)
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In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first
since "The Hours," we encounter the same group of characters: a
young boy, a man, and a woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story
that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution as
human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine
age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first
century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it
tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs,
seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like
Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city
is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet
to be contacted by the people of Earth.
Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the
prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future
readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you,
and know how it is." "Specimen Days" is a genre-bending, haunting,
and transformative ode to life in our greatest city, and a
meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is
a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original
and daring writers at work today.
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