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A Novel in Five Parts
Henry Holt
December 2012
On Sale: December 11, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 0805097309
EAN: 9780805097306
Kindle: B008E7AD1M
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life
From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of
Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five
transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked
across centuries. In Second World War Poland, a
young prisoner closes his eyes and pictures going to bat on
a sunlit English cricket ground. Across the yard of a
Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the
son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, an
old servant understands—suddenly and with awe—the meaning of
the Bible story her master is reading to her. On a
summer evening in the Catskills in 1971, a skinny girl steps
out of a Chevy with a guitar and with a song that will send
shivers through her listeners' skulls. A few years
from now, in Italy, a gifted scientist discovers links
between time and the human brain and between her lover's
novel and his life. Throughout the five masterpieces
of fiction that make up A Possible Life, exquisitely
drawn and unforgettable characters risk their bodies, hearts
and minds in pursuit of the manna of human connection.
Between soldier and lover, parent and child, servant and
master, and artist and muse, important pleasures and pains
are born of love, separations and missed opportunities.
These interactions—whether successful or not—also affect the
long trajectories of characters' lives. Provocative
and profound, Sebastian Faulks's dazzling new novel journeys
across continents and centuries not only to entertain with
superb old-fashioned storytelling but to show that occasions
of understanding between humans are the one thing that
defines us—and that those moments, however fluid, are the
one thing that endures.
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