Specimen Days

Cunningham,Michael (Signed Copy)

ISBN 10: 0007156057 / ISBN 13: 9780007156054

Published by Fourth Estate, London, 2005

About this Item

This is a Mint Copy of this Book in Publisher's original cloth in a Mint Dust-Jacket (AS NEW) Not price clipped and with this copy has been SIGNED by the Author without any dedication to any person on the title page.Lovely bright copy with 'SIGNED FIRST EDITION' wrap round band present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Great copy for the collector and the d/j comes well protected in a removable cover sleeve,8vo 308pp First UK Edition 1st Impression.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Specimen Days
• Publisher: Fourth Estate, London
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007156057
• ISBN 13: 9780007156054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

a novel

Review

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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