false 111082 <![CDATA[Specimen Days (SIGNED)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648277m/111082.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648277s/111082.jpg 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.

]]> 2136 33 820178 2005 Specimen Days total:1448|5:256|4:448|3:472|2:204|1:68| 1448 4964 1978 248 1432 3.77 20681 1873 31886515 1405967 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.41 1255 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 1 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 03 00:55:56 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 28 10:25:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23668885 329383 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 1 false Wed Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 05:44:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 08:35:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 21383523 964960 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 2 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 06:02:37 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 07:52:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2768337 103674 910180 000719384X 9780007193844 1 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179371380m/910180.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179371380s/910180.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/910180.Specimen_Days 3.67 6 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.

]]> 2005 4 1 false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Fri Jul 06 08:37:58 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 08:38:41 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2325419 149347 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 1 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 24 07:47:24 -0700 2007 Sun Jun 24 07:54:51 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2124008 139974 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 5 1 false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Jun 19 11:58:33 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 12:48:43 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2037983 86145 834563 0374299625 9780374299620 25 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908m/834563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908s/834563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/834563.Specimen_Days 3.48 128 Book Description: 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.]]> 2005 1 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Jun 16 16:37:54 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 16 16:38:24 -0700 2007
and then. it was so disappointing. part of it may be personal, but i don't think all of it.

he does (or tries to do) what he did with The Hours...more...]]> 6273688 4629 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 3 1 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Sep 16 06:49:51 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 16 06:49:51 -0700 2007
1. A kid with an awful life and effectively dead parents in industrial revolution-era NYC laments his dead brother, is eaten by machines, falls in l...more...]]> 3060508 179944 577836 0007156065 9780007156061 1 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/577836.Specimen_Days 4.00 8 Book Description: 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.

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]]> 2005 3 1 false Fri Jul 13 22:37:11 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:35:12 -0800 2009
i ran into him in the bathroom and somehow i started telling him about some personal problems, he listened and gave me advice. on that alo...more...]]> 47677101 2076721 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Feb 27 06:24:58 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 06:25:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 45460410 1008236 834563 0374299625 9780374299620 25 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908m/834563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908s/834563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/834563.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 Book Description: 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.]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:33:55 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:33:55 -0800 2009 When an author follows up a PEN/Faulkner and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel with one that shares a similar structure, critics swarm. Call him audacious, but Cunningham, author of The Hours (1998) and At Home at the End of the World (1990), has again written three interrelated stories and incorporated ...

more...]]> 76813043 1930546 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 09:23:36 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 09:23:36 -0800 2009
A triptych of tightly-wound exercises in genre--a Machine Age ghost story, a whodunnit set in the Patriot Act hysteria of the mid 00s, and a scifi roadtri...more...]]> 53754133 2200771 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 23 14:42:07 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 00:39:13 -0700 2009 1 Specimen Days is a collection of three short stories which are interwoven with references to Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The first is set in the past, the second is contemporary, and the third is set in the future. These short stories are in a shared universe - events in one are referenced in another...more...]]> 77130031 2772016 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Thu Nov 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 15:01:03 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 12:23:28 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 55425706 1416689 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 5 0 false Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 18:02:11 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 18:51:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45641839 529705 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 3 0 false Sat Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 07:39:08 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 07:51:56 -0800 2009 more...]]> 40529648 1114753 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 11:16:52 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 12:02:59 -0800 2008 more...]]> 61727843 67277 834563 0374299625 9780374299620 25 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908m/834563.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178761908s/834563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/834563.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 Book Description: 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.]]> 2005 3 0 false Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 23:44:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 11:15:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1126870 78903 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 5 1 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed May 09 12:52:48 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 16 19:11:16 -0800 2009 66248583 543723 2136 0312425023 9780312425029 210 <![CDATA[Specimen Days]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401m/2136.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1159982401s/2136.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2136.Specimen_Days 3.43 1448 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. </DIV>]]> 2005 4 0 false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 21:13:26 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 08 10:03:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=111082