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Lucas, Catherine, 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
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Specimen Days, Michael Cunningham
- Language
- Released
- 2005
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- Title
- Specimen Days
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Cunningham
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0312939957
- ISBN13
- 9780312939953
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, American Literature, New York, Sci-Fi Short Stories, Short Story Novels
- First published
- 2005
- Original title
- Specimen Days
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Lucas, Catherine, 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