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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, time, technology, and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas.Lucas, Catherine, and Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form ‘Specimen Days’. The first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was ‘devoured’ by the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies two strange beings into the future.A novel of connecting and reconnecting, inspired by the writings of the great visionary poet Walt Whitman, Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting ode to life itself – a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.‘Intricately conceived, stylishly written and admirably ambitious, this absorbing novel lingers in the mind.’ Peter Parker, Sunday Times‘“Specimen Days” contains more incidental beauty and emotional insight than many impeccably dull items on the shortlists of prestigious literary prizes. And it’s by far the best

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Author

Cunningham, Michael

Publisher

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Published

2005

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Alternate Realities, Fiction