Specimen Days: A Novel
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0099XCBWY
Publish date: April 1st 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Fantastic writing. Three genres in one. Section one: a ghost story. Section two: a police procedural. Section three: a sci-fi tale. The only thing I thought was lacking was a more definitive ending that wrapped up the ties between all three tales.
Reading as an unabridged audiobook. Cunningham is an author who makes me wish I were taking a class on the novel so I'd have reason to engage with his work more critically. I hardly know what to say about this, except that although the structural play was sometimes a hammer when a feather was called...
I never really liked Whitman, but since Cunningham makes him his book’s hero [remember Woolf and The Hours?] he becomes more accessible. Directly or not, he is present in all three parts of the book, being hidden by Cunningham behind the characters that populate a New York from different periods of ...
This novel traces the lives of misfits in New York City, each with the name, or a variation of, Catherine, Simon and Lukas, and their oftentimes messy and devoted relationships to one another. Cunningham divides this novel into three sections spanning about three hundred years. Several threads tie ...
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