Specimen Days

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706247
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specimen Days written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specimen Days and Collect written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Specimen Days & Collect written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429937556
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flesh and Blood written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it is touched by ambition, love, violence, and the transforming effects of time.

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429978090
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Nightfall written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan's SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. Then Rebecca's much younger look-alike brother, Ethan (known in thefamily as Mizzy, "the mistake"), shows up for a visit. A beautiful, beguiling twenty-three-year-old with a history of drug problems, Mizzy is wayward, at loose ends, looking for direction. And in his presence, Peter finds himself questioning his artists, their work, his career—the entire world he has so carefully constructed. Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Hours, Michael Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heartbreaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, it makes us think and feel deeply about the uses and meaning of beauty and the place of love in our lives.

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710341
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Snow Queen written by Michael Cunningham and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly luminous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hours Michael Cunningham's luminous novel begins with a vision. It's November 2004. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up at the sky; there he sees a pale, translucent light that seems to regard him in a distinctly godlike way. Barrett doesn't believe in visions—or in God—but he can't deny what he's seen. At the same time, in the not-quite-gentrified Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, Tyler, Barrett's older brother, a struggling musician, is trying—and failing—to write a wedding song for Beth, his wife-to-be, who is seriously ill. Tyler is determined to write a song that will be not merely a sentimental ballad but an enduring expression of love. Barrett, haunted by the light, turns unexpectedly to religion. Tyler grows increasingly convinced that only drugs can release his creative powers. Beth tries to face mortality with as much courage as she can summon. Cunningham follows the Meeks brothers as each travels down a different path in his search for transcendence. In subtle, lucid prose, he demonstrates a profound empathy for his conflicted characters and a singular understanding of what lies at the core of the human soul. The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one of the great novelists of his generation.

Author : Michael S. Webster
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351646788
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Extended Specimen written by Michael S. Webster and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extended Specimen highlights the research potential for ornithological specimens, and is meant to encourage ornithologists poised to initiate a renaissance in collections-based ornithological research. Contributors illustrate how collections and specimens are used in novel ways by adopting emerging new technologies and analytical techniques. Case studies use museum specimens and emerging and non-traditional types of specimens, which are developing new methods for making biological collections more accessible and "usable" for ornithological researchers. Published in collaboration with and on behalf of The American Ornithological Society, this volume in the highly-regarded Studies in Avian Biology series documents the power of ornithological collections to address key research questions of global importance.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Prose Works of Walt Whitman written by Walt Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250852684
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hours / Mrs. Dalloway written by Michael Cunningham and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Cunningham brings together his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel with the masterpiece that inspired it, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. In The Hours, the acclaimed author Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf and the story of her novel, Mrs. Dalloway, to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. In this edition, Cunningham brings his own Pulitzer Prize–winning novel together with Woolf’s masterpiece, which has long been hailed as a groundbreaking work of literary fiction and one of the finest novels written in English. The two novels, published side by side with a new introduction by Cunningham, display the extent of their affinity, and each illuminates new facets of the other in this joint volume. In his introduction, Cunningham re-creates the wonderment of his first encounter with Mrs. Dalloway at fifteen—as he writes, “I was lost. I was gone. I never recovered.” With this edition, Cunningham allows us to disappear into the world of Woolf and into his own brilliant mind.