Specimen Days

In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the...
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Author: Michael Cunningham
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Specimen Days by Cunningham, Michael

Specimen Days

€22,76

Specimen Days

€22,76
Author: Michael Cunningham
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.

Author: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 04/18/2006
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780312425029

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 102563 / Specimen Days


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 05/14/2006 pg. 36

About the Author

Michael Cunningham is the author of the bestselling novel The Hours, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, A Home at the End of the World, also adapted for the screen, and Flesh and Blood, all published by FSG. He lives in New York.




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