Halcyon : a novel
"From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does America's fate hang in the balance? Stretching from Civil War battles to the toppling of Confederate monuments, from scholarly debates to intimate family secrets, 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 layers of memory and forgetting"-- Provided by publisher.
Item details
- ISBN: 0593467086
- ISBN: 9780593467084
- ISBN: 0593321626
- ISBN: 9780593321621
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Physical Description:
237 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
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Subject: | Immortalism Fiction |
Genre: | Novels. Alternative histories (Fiction) |
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