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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... , even as the moment of my arrival is established. Even now I am trying to learn what I need to know in order to do what I must. And so I turn my attention back to the bus, still twenty miles west, blowing past a 1 Chapter 1.
... , even as the moment of my arrival is established. Even now I am trying to learn what I need to know in order to do what I must. And so I turn my attention back to the bus, still twenty miles west, blowing past a 1 Chapter 1.
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... trying to say. Though look at me, son. I don't have the face of Mix or Holt or my old pal Bronco Billy Anderson. I never liked white horses anyhow. What I'd've been, dumped out of a boot there on the floor, was what I ended up being ...
... trying to say. Though look at me, son. I don't have the face of Mix or Holt or my old pal Bronco Billy Anderson. I never liked white horses anyhow. What I'd've been, dumped out of a boot there on the floor, was what I ended up being ...
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... trying to figure all this out without a great deal of guidance—I don't mean to be critical, my sweet spaceman lover— but I am struggling.” She falls silent for a moment and her hand with the tag hovers before her and then, in a burst of ...
... trying to figure all this out without a great deal of guidance—I don't mean to be critical, my sweet spaceman lover— but I am struggling.” She falls silent for a moment and her hand with the tag hovers before her and then, in a burst of ...
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... 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 the outer moon of my home planet . " This is a little joke , based on ...
... 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 the outer moon of my home planet . " This is a little joke , based on ...
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... trying to deal with Viola's astonishment at the sight of me . " Did she really tell you ' Judith ' was her name , Mrs. Desi ? " " You're such a sweet boy . " " Arthur ! " Viola cries , though in a less strident voice , a fully conscious ...
... trying to deal with Viola's astonishment at the sight of me . " Did she really tell you ' Judith ' was her name , Mrs. Desi ? " " You're such a sweet boy . " " Arthur ! " Viola cries , though in a less strident voice , a fully conscious ...
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