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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... light out toward the night horizon where others of them huddle in their bungalows or their mobile homes waiting for ... lights as green as the most dazzling toothbrush wave about high over the lake, restlessly sweeping an empty sky. As ...
... light out toward the night horizon where others of them huddle in their bungalows or their mobile homes waiting for ... lights as green as the most dazzling toothbrush wave about high over the lake, restlessly sweeping an empty sky. As ...
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... light and it gathers beneath my ship and then descends like a pillar of fire and it seizes this bus and the wheels rush on, spinning wildly but touching nothing now save the air, and the bus rises quickly, so quickly that any creature ...
... light and it gathers beneath my ship and then descends like a pillar of fire and it seizes this bus and the wheels rush on, spinning wildly but touching nothing now save the air, and the bus rises quickly, so quickly that any creature ...
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... , there are some surprises. The bus sits, just as it should, in a great swath of light in the center of the hall, which recedes into soothing darkness in all di- rections . Except one . Just as my vessel's intuitive 10 Robert Olen Butler.
... , there are some surprises. The bus sits, just as it should, in a great swath of light in the center of the hall, which recedes into soothing darkness in all di- rections . Except one . Just as my vessel's intuitive 10 Robert Olen Butler.
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Robert Olen Butler. rections . Except one . Just as my vessel's intuitive light - as natural as a cloudless morning - immediately picks up Edna and me and moves with us as we move ― so , too , has a wide column of light appeared in a ...
Robert Olen Butler. rections . Except one . Just as my vessel's intuitive light - as natural as a cloudless morning - immediately picks up Edna and me and moves with us as we move ― so , too , has a wide column of light appeared in a ...
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... light . The windows are dark - tinted but near the front is a face pressed hard against the glass , gaping , eyes wide in terror , taking in all of this . The face presses harder , the eyes widen even further , and I understand that I ...
... light . The windows are dark - tinted but near the front is a face pressed hard against the glass , gaping , eyes wide in terror , taking in all of this . The face presses harder , the eyes widen even further , and I understand that I ...
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