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Michael Cunningham's bold new novel is three related stories spanning three-hundred years of New York history. In the Machine is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution. The Children's Crusade, set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the 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. And presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman...
| ISBN-13 | 9781846324253 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1846324254 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 464 pages |
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| Published On | 2006-01-05 |
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