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Natural History by Megan McDowell (English) Compact Disc Book
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- 9781094199627
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- ISBN
- 9781094199627
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Natural History
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Hispanic & Latino, Literary
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From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic epic of art, politics, and hidden realities. Just before the dawn of the new millennium, a curator at a New Jersey museum of natural history receives an unusual invitation from a celebrated fashion designer. She shares the curator's fascination with the hidden forms of the animal kingdom--with camouflage and subterfuge--and she proposes that they collaborate on an exhibition, the form of which itself remains largely obscure, even as they enter into a strange relationship marked by evasion and elision.Seven years later, after the death of the designer, the curator recovers the archive of their never-completed project. During a long night of insomnia, he finds within the archive a series of clues to the true story of the designer's family, a mind-bending puzzle that winds from Haifa, Israel, to bohemian 1970s New York to the Latin American jungle. On the way, he discovers a cast of characters whose own fixations interrogate the unstable frontiers between art, science, politics, and religion: an aging photographer, living nearly alone in an abandoned mining town where subterranean fires rage without end, who creates models of ruined cities; a former model turned conceptual artist--and a defendant in a trial over the very nature and purpose of art; a young indigenous boy who has received a vision of the end of the world. Reality is a curtain, as the curator realizes, and to draw it back is to reveal the theater of obsession.Natural History is the portrait of a world trapped between faith and irony, between tragedy and farce. A defiantly contemporary and impressively ambitious novel in the tradition of Italo Calvino and Ricardo Piglia, it confirms Carlos Fonseca as one of the most daring writers of his generation.
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1094199621
ISBN-13
9781094199627
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4050083361
Product Key Features
Book Title
Natural History
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
Hispanic & Latino, Literary
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Fiction
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Item Length
5.7in.
Item Width
5.2in.
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Unabridged Edition
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An elegant meditation on art, inconstancy, and hiding, with a deftly woven subtext of camouflage that emerges as the narrative progresses., The various characters' perspectives blur the line between memory and fantasy, and their charm will keep readers along for the very intricate ride...[an] innovative puzzle box of a novel packs a powerful punch., [A]kaleidoscopic novel...[that] invites reflection about the weight of legacies and about the masks that make up what we call identity., Jonathan Davis's intelligent narration is a wonderful vehicle through which to delve into this inventive novel...a quietly lush voice that conveys just the right emotional nuance...There's a hypnotic quality to Davis's narration...[and] listeners will appreciate his wise guidance as they navigate an intricate plot and piece together this multilayered story., Fonseca's challenging and transcendent novel offers a prescient message about media fabrications and the unreliability of history.
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2020
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