Specimen Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimen Days write by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2007-04-01. Specimen Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Specimen Days
Specimen Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimen Days write by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 2023-08-15. Specimen Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'I obey my happy hour's command, which seems curiously imperative. May-be, if I don't do anything else, I shall send out the most wayward, spontaneous, fragmentary book ever printed.' One of the best kept secrets of modern autobiographical literature, Whitman's autobiography moves in brisk, episodic fashion to chronicle the life of one of the world's best loved and most influential poets. Experimental in form, lyrical in expression, and rich in experiential content, Specimen Days still awaits a much wider readership than it has hitherto commanded. Whitman gives us his life as lived in relation to the shifting urban and rural ecologies of a young nation -a nation that had freshly emerged from catastrophic civil war and that was assuming the vanguard of artistic, technological, economic, political, and philosophical modernity. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose
Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose write by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 1935. Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Specimen Days & Collect
Specimen Days & Collect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Specimen Days & Collect write by Walt Whitman. This book was released on 1882. Specimen Days & Collect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flesh and Blood write by Michael Cunningham. This book was released on 2007-04-17. Flesh and Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This novel follows the Stassos family through four generations, as it is touched by ambition, love, violence, and the transforming effects of time.
