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Orbit

✍ Scribed by Arthur Vogelsang


Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
30 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0822981335

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✦ Synopsis


Orbit connects the intimate with what is farthest from us, mixing what we can imagine with what is daily and near. Landscapes stretch from stable and fulfilling domestic interiors to the destiny of our sun as an exploding red giant. That dilemma of human fertility and love facing ultimate destruction is orchestrated by the author's provocative voice and coiled lines, which fondle and handle the reader's heart and mind in a bright light. The book insists on connecting the three eras of human experience--Then, Now, and When--at every turn...


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