A Million Heavens
$51.00
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2013
Summary
On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter - strangers in search of answers, a brush with the mystical, or just an escape. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a religion. Just beyond this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds, protecting and threatening, learning too much. And above them all, a would-be a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349138862 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349138869 |
| Author: | John Brandon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2013 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 185mm x 26mm |
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[John Brandon] deftly renders a desert wilderness where human hearts are compelled to seek isolation from the pains of the world, but tend to find connectedness despite themselves - Publishers Weekly
A surreal exploration of the origin of inspiration, of what connects humans to each other and to their surroundings. …Brandon’s gift for conjuring a powerful sense of place has never been stronger as the high-desert sands invade every nook and cranny of the lives of his characters - BooklistWondrous… More than once I handed A Million Heavens to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph, then onto the next page…. I had to stop reading to actually pace, marvelling at what one writer can imagine, what a novel is capable of holding - New York Times Book ReviewJohn Brandon is my favourite new writer. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy - Tom FranklinAbout The Author
John Brandon
John Brandon was raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida and has worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse and a Coca-Cola distributor. Acclaim for his first novel, Arkansas, led to his appointment as John and Renee Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.
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