Specimen Days: A Novel
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"Splendid prose in a mesmerizing tale." — Chicago Tribune
"A tour de force." — People (four stars)
"By far, the best gothic historical sci-fi cop thriller you'll ever read." — The Guardian (UK)
In Specimen Days, author Michael Cunningham celebrates America in all its grime and glory, its poetry and terror, from the industrial revolution to a postapocalyptic future. As a man, a woman, and a boy reappear in different guises in different centuries, the novel itself moves from a Victorian ghost story to a contemporary psychological police thriller and finally a futuristic love story. Featuring Walt Whitman and a metamorphosing New York City, Specimen Days is a breathtakingly beautiful celebration of the transforming power of love and art through the centuries.
"Brilliantly conceived, empathic, darkly humorous, and gorgeously rendered, Cunningham's galvanizing novel about the quest for justice and freedom, the parameters of the soul, the hunger for beauty, and the fluid interface between the natural and the engineered is a genuine literary event." — Booklist (starred review)
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About the author
Michael Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles and lives in New York City. He is the author of the novels The Hours, A Home at the End of the World, Flesh and Blood, and By Nightfall. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and Best American Short Stories, and he is the recipient of a Whiting Writer's Award. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Hours, which was a New York Times bestseller, and was chosen as a Best Book of 1998 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly. He is a Professor at Brooklyn College for the M.F.A program.
