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Halcyon
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ISBN10: 0593467086
ISBN13: 9780593467084
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780593467084
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Aug 6 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (An expert juggling act. --Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review) Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?
Stretching from pivotal elections to intimate family secrets, from the Battle of Saipan to the toppling of Confederate monuments, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.
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