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Specimen Days

by Michael Cunningham
Specimen Days - Thryft
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A haunting genre-bending ode to New York.

Specimen Days is a must-read for those who enjoy imaginative stories that blend different genres. Michael Cunningham's work creates a haunting vision of New York while exploring the alienation of the industrial age and the uncertainties of the future. With Walt Whitman as its prophetic figure, this transformative novel showcases the beauty and power of unconventional storytelling at its best.

  • Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Specimen Days

by Michael Cunningham
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ISBN: 9780312425029
Authors: Michael Cunningham
Publisher: Picador
Date of Publication: 2006-04-18
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.6
(rated by 6174 readers)

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
 

A haunting genre-bending ode to New York.

Specimen Days is a must-read for those who enjoy imaginative stories that blend different genres. Michael Cunningham's work creates a haunting vision of New York while exploring the alienation of the industrial age and the uncertainties of the future. With Walt Whitman as its prophetic figure, this transformative novel showcases the beauty and power of unconventional storytelling at its best.

  • Ohioana Book Award for Fiction (2006)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.