#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "A WISE, SPIRITED NOVEL . . . [IN WHICH] SMILEY PLUMBS THE WONDROUSLY STRANGE WORLD OF HORSE RACING." --People "ONE OF THE PREMIER NOVELISTS OF HER GENERATION, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grow mo
The heavens: a novel
β Scribed by Newman, Sandra
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic; Grove Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 080214683X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young man, Ben, meets a young woman, Kateβand they begin to fall in love.
From their first meeting, Ben knows Kate is unworldly and fanciful, so at first he isn't that concerned when she tells him about the recurring dream she's had since childhood. In the dream, she's transported to the past, where she lives a second life as Emilia, the mistress of a nobleman in Elizabethan England.
But for Kate, the dream becomes increasingly real and compelling until it threatens to overwhelm her life. And soon she's waking from it to find the world changedβpictures on her wall she doesn't recognize, new buildings in the neighborhood that have sprung up overnight. As she tries to make...
All Identifiers : isbn:9780802146830
Number of Words in Auth: 2
Formats : EPUB
Number of Formats : 1
Has Cover : Yes
Single Author : Sandra Newman
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β¦ Subjects
RΓͺves -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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