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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... mind, and I do have a bus full of sleeping and soon-to-be distressed subjects waiting for me. “We must look in on our visitors now,” I say. Edna ends her embrace and steps back and shifts about briefly in her dress once more and pats at ...
... mind, and I do have a bus full of sleeping and soon-to-be distressed subjects waiting for me. “We must look in on our visitors now,” I say. Edna ends her embrace and steps back and shifts about briefly in her dress once more and pats at ...
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... mind . At the end of the day , all you really have is just pride in your sausage , is all , and Tennessee is close enough for that . " My Edna Bradshaw pauses with this thought and an unmis- takable sadness comes upon her . I will ask ...
... mind . At the end of the day , all you really have is just pride in your sausage , is all , and Tennessee is close enough for that . " My Edna Bradshaw pauses with this thought and an unmis- takable sadness comes upon her . I will ask ...
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... pecan ball with a peaceful mind . " Jared blinks at me and looks at the chunk of pecan ball on the paper plate in his hand and then he makes a tiny snapping movement with his head - I have seen this gesture 16 Robert Olen Butler.
... pecan ball with a peaceful mind . " Jared blinks at me and looks at the chunk of pecan ball on the paper plate in his hand and then he makes a tiny snapping movement with his head - I have seen this gesture 16 Robert Olen Butler.
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... mind . “ Did you hear how this clearly educated man expressed himself , Mr. Jared ? You are all emerging slowly from a state of suspension . You will all speak for a while using words from the unswept refuse of your minds . Your Citrus ...
... mind . “ Did you hear how this clearly educated man expressed himself , Mr. Jared ? You are all emerging slowly from a state of suspension . You will all speak for a while using words from the unswept refuse of your minds . Your Citrus ...
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... mind. I missed the moment of his snap, and he clearly missed an initial glimpse of his host Desi the Spaceman. His back is to me. I reach to pull my stylish wide-brimmed black felt hat lower over my face, but it is not on my head. I am ...
... mind. I missed the moment of his snap, and he clearly missed an initial glimpse of his host Desi the Spaceman. His back is to me. I reach to pull my stylish wide-brimmed black felt hat lower over my face, but it is not on my head. I am ...
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