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Book

Question 7

Call Number

  • 921 F5835 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Physical Description

280 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

"By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when Flanagan as a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river not knowing if he is to live or to die. At once a love song to his island home and to his parents, this hypnotic melding of dream, history, place and memory is about how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves"--

Notes

"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

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