A registry of my passage upon the earth : stories / Daniel Mason.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780316477635
- 031647763X
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | MASON, DANIEL | Available | 33111011282908 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist: This collection of moving short stories is "a treasure trove of lush scene setting in faraway times and places" (Alexis Burling, San Francisco Chronicle ).
On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son.
At times funny and irreverent, always moving and deeply urgent, these stories--among them a National Magazine Award and a Pushcart Prize winner--cap a fifteen-year project. From the Nile's depths to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, from volcano-racked islands to an asylum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, these are tales of ecstasy, epiphany, and what the New York Times Magazine called the "struggle for survival . . . hand to hand, word to word," by "one of the finest prose stylists in American fiction."
A Library Journal Best Book of 2020
Death of the pugilist, or The famous battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw -- The ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace -- For the Union dead -- The second doctor service -- The miraculous discovery of Psammetichus I -- On growing ferns and other plants in glass cases, in the midst of the smoke of London -- The line agent Pascal -- On the cause of winds and waves, & c -- A registry of my passage upon the earth -- Acknowledgments.
"On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son."--Provided by publisher.