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A registry of my passage upon the earth: stories

✍ Scribed by Mason, Daniel Philippe

Book ID: 100627281
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Weight: 512 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
City: New York
ISBN: 0316477613

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✦ Synopsis

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner , a collection of interlaced tales of men and women facing the mysteries and magic of the world.

On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.

At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories -- among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner -- cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of...

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