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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Human Script: A novel in 23 chromosomes

The Human Script: A novel in 23 chromosomes

Rich, Johnny

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1533354847
ISBN13: 9781533354846
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 13 2013
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
'A captivating, intelligent and deeply affecting exploration of science, literature and ideas', Tom McCarthy, author of Man Booker shortlisted Satin Island and C BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015: 'Brave, intelligent and gloriously unsettling', Book Smoke 'An engaging novel, brimming with ideas... To say I enjoyed The Human Script would be an understatement.' BookemStevo London in the spring of 2000: Chris Putnam, a young scientist working on the Human Genome Project, is grieving for the end of his first relationship and for the loss of his deeply religious and estranged father. Then Chris falls in love and his brother goes missing. Events take Chris on a journey from research labs via decadent art-scene parties and London's Theatreland to the stark loneliness of a psychiatric hospital and ultimately to a desperate decision. What Chris discovers about himself forces him to address his beliefs, his nature and even reality itself. In The Human Script science, philosophy, literary theory and religion intertwine in a poignant and tragic love story that asked the question: What is it to be human? A profound masterpiece that lay hidden under the author's bed for more than a decade, readers of Tom McCarthy and David Mitchell will love this exciting debut that explores nature and nurture, faith and knowledge, freedom and fate, identity and reality and the nature of fiction itself.

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