The Book from the Sky
I'm on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.” So begins Robert Kelly's remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. I” is Billy, the book's protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who take him to a cave and meticulously, if seemingly by caprice, remove his young pure smokeless lungs” and other internal organs to replace them with two gray squirrels, a live hawk, a shoe, and a variety of other bizarre objects. Billy's body and mind are spun off into a curious twin, one whose adventures Billy is forced by his captors to watch and try to make sense of—not a simple task when he sees his doppelgäng…
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- ISBN: 978-1-55643-755-7
- EAN: 9781556437557
- Produktnummer: 3798538
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Über den Autor
A prominent figure in American letters since the late 1950s, Robert Kelly has published over 50 books, including 10 novels, and has won the American Book Award and other prizes for his work. His writing has appeared in Conjunctions and other literary magazines. A teacher at Bard College, he lives in Red Hook, NY.
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