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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
ISBN
9780374299620

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374299625
ISBN-13
9780374299620
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44780762

Product Key Features

Book Title
Specimen Days
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Author
Michael Cunningham
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
22.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-040518
Reviews
"Another dazzling tour de force."--Library Journal(starred review) "[Walt Whitman's] boundless spirit . . . imbuesSpecimen Dayswith a sense of wonder and magic." --Elissa Schappel,Vanity Fair Praise forThe Hours: "A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today, "Another dazzling tour de force." --Library Journal (starred review) "[Walt Whitman's] boundless spirit . . . imbues Specimen Days with a sense of wonder and magic." --Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair Praise for The Hours: "A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." -- USA Today, "Another dazzling tour de force." --Library Journal (starred review)   "[Walt Whitman's] boundless spirit . . . imbues Specimen Days with a sense of wonder and magic." --Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair   Praise for The Hours: "A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today, "Another dazzling tour de force." -- Library Journal (starred review) "[Walt Whitman's] boundless spirit . . . imbues Specimen Days with a sense of wonder and magic." -- Elissa Schappel, Vanity Fair "A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." -- USA Today on The Hours, Praise for "The Hours: "A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --"USA Today, A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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, an older man, and a young 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., 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, an older man, and a young 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., The same group of characters, a young boy, an older man, and a young woman, are present in each historical period of this genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in New York. The novel provides a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny.
LC Classification Number
PS3553.U484S64 2005

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