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The immortalists : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0525497633
- ISBN: 9780525497639
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file (11 hr., 36 min., 3 sec.)) : digital
remote - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : Penguin Audio, 2018.
Content descriptions
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Maggie Hoffman. |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed January 15, 2018). |
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| Subject: | Magicians Fiction Aging Fiction Fate and fatalism Fiction Families Fiction Fortune-tellers Fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent." If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children--four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness--sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.