Mr. SpacemanOpen Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2007/12/01 - 240 ページ “A surprisingly sweet and droll first-person account of the vexed attempts of an alien to understand the bafflingly unpredictable human race.” —Kirkus Reviews The Pulitzer Prize–winning author “raises fin de siècle literature to new heights and turns inevitability on its head” in a novel of an alien named Desi (Publishers Weekly). For decades, Desi has kept a quiet vigil above the Earth while studying the confusing, fascinating, and frustrating primary species of our planet, occasionally venturing to the planet’s surface to hear their thoughts and experience their memories using his empathic powers. Now, on December 31, 2000, he prepares for the final phase of his mysterious mission, which begins when he beams a tour bus bound for a Louisiana casino aboard his ship. The twelve passengers will be the last humans whose lives he will experience before he positions his spaceship in full and irrefutable view of the people of Earth and descends to the planet’s surface to proclaim his presence to all of humanity at the turn of the millennium. Poignant, funny, and charming, Mr. Spaceman is filled with unexpected twists and turns, a tribute to the powers of love and understanding and the essence of what it means to be human. “Funny and humane, entertaining and touching.” —The New York Times |
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... eyes. And inside, the pilgrims seek- ing Luck have all fallen into a deep sleep. I rise. I step into the brushed-smooth metalloid corridor ring- ing with silence. I move along quickly. Gliding, my wife says, a thing that never ceases to ...
... eyes. And inside, the pilgrims seek- ing Luck have all fallen into a deep sleep. I rise. I step into the brushed-smooth metalloid corridor ring- ing with silence. I move along quickly. Gliding, my wife says, a thing that never ceases to ...
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... eyes filling, as they easily do, with tears. I am now ren- dered, as I usually am, utterly floppy-fingered helpless when I see her tears, even tears of appreciation and thanks, which is the case in this moment. I am struck, too, at the ...
... eyes filling, as they easily do, with tears. I am now ren- dered, as I usually am, utterly floppy-fingered helpless when I see her tears, even tears of appreciation and thanks, which is the case in this moment. I am struck, too, at the ...
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... eyes that resemble in shape Eddie the cat's eyes and my total lack of hair or fur of any kind and my mouth that is thin and sinuous — I have a very nice mouth by my home planet's standards , but it has nothing like the outfold of lips ...
... eyes that resemble in shape Eddie the cat's eyes and my total lack of hair or fur of any kind and my mouth that is thin and sinuous — I have a very nice mouth by my home planet's standards , but it has nothing like the outfold of lips ...
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... eyes and then he dropped his hands and opened his eyes again , wide , trying to come to terms with what was before him . His tag says , Hi , my name is JARED . So I say , “ Please , Mr. Jared , take that silver knife and cut a chunk off ...
... eyes and then he dropped his hands and opened his eyes again , wide , trying to come to terms with what was before him . His tag says , Hi , my name is JARED . So I say , “ Please , Mr. Jared , take that silver knife and cut a chunk off ...
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... Judith anymore . She's long past Judith . " " Well , honey , that's the name she gave me for her tag , " Edna says , and she turns her attention back to the woman on her arm . " Come on now , Viola , his eyes are 18 Robert Olen Butler.
... Judith anymore . She's long past Judith . " " Well , honey , that's the name she gave me for her tag , " Edna says , and she turns her attention back to the woman on her arm . " Come on now , Viola , his eyes are 18 Robert Olen Butler.
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