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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... mouth. On my planet we still have mouths and mecha- nisms to make sounds, but we use them primarily in the effort to create music or direct expressions of feeling that bypass the lumpenness of rational, denotated thought. For a time I ...
... mouth. On my planet we still have mouths and mecha- nisms to make sounds, but we use them primarily in the effort to create music or direct expressions of feeling that bypass the lumpenness of rational, denotated thought. For a time I ...
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... 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 that I must say I find enchanting in Edna . I understand how the sudden turning of this man in the ...
... 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 that I must say I find enchanting in Edna . I understand how the sudden turning of this man in the ...
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... mouth full of pecan log , bits of the nuts spewing mistily into the spot lighting around us . The young woman continues to smile toward the invisible ceiling . " She is not quite awake , " I say . Jared looks at me . He , too , has ...
... mouth full of pecan log , bits of the nuts spewing mistily into the spot lighting around us . The young woman continues to smile toward the invisible ceiling . " She is not quite awake , " I say . Jared looks at me . He , too , has ...
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... mouth . " I don't remember that , " Arthur says . " Trust me , little buddy , " Hank says . " Are you people crazy ? " Hudson suddenly cries . " What are you talking about ? We've all been kidnapped onto a fucking spaceship . " " Please ...
... mouth . " I don't remember that , " Arthur says . " Trust me , little buddy , " Hank says . " Are you people crazy ? " Hudson suddenly cries . " What are you talking about ? We've all been kidnapped onto a fucking spaceship . " " Please ...
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... quite attractively large for her species and knockers to rival even Edna's. She stuffs more carrot curls into her mouth with both hands. Her name is MISTY. Just beyond her , the couple with Asian heritage have Mr. Spaceman 23.
... quite attractively large for her species and knockers to rival even Edna's. She stuffs more carrot curls into her mouth with both hands. Her name is MISTY. Just beyond her , the couple with Asian heritage have Mr. Spaceman 23.
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