Name: Specimen Days
ISBN: 9780007373154

Michael Cunningham

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Hours’, time, technology and love are the central concerns of a provocative novel that calls to mind David Mitchell’s ‘Cloud Atlas’.

Specimen Days

Prophetic poet Walt Whitman presides over each interlinked episode in a visionary novel set in the city of New York, featuring the same group of characters--a young boy, an older man, and a young woman--that range from "In the Machine," which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, through the twenty-first-century "Children's Crusade," to "Like Beauty," set in a city of the future. Reprint. Reader's Guide available.

A Novel

Prashanth Srivatsa

Absurdly beautiful, written with maddening brilliance and originality. Three stories, three genres, questions asked and answered, but beyond that, it is the aura Cunningham creates around his characters, a longing to be around them even after their fates are sealed, that makes this a ride. The prose is remarkable.