Halcyon
By: Ackerman, Elliot
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BookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023Edition: First edition.Description: 237 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780593321621.Subject(s): Immortalism -- Fiction | Divorced people -- Fiction | Alaska -- FictionGenre/Form: Alternative histories (Fiction)DDC classification: 813/.6 Summary: "Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does America's fate hang in the balance?"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does America's fate hang in the balance?"-- Provided by publisher.
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