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THE BODY IN THE CLOUDS
By: Ashley Hay
Washington Square Press
July 2017
On Sale: July 18, 2017
320 pages
ISBN: 1501165119
EAN: 9781501165115
Kindle: B01MFEYDAI
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From the acclaimed author of the βexquisitely written and deeply feltβ (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord) novel The Railwaymanβs Wife comes a magical and gorgeously wrought tale of an astonishing event that connects three people across three hundred years. Imagine you looked up at just the right moment and saw something completely unexpected. What if it was something so marvelous that it transformed time and space forever? The Body in the Clouds tells the story of one such extraordinary momentβa man falling from the sky, and survivingβand of the three men who see it, in different ways and at different times, as they stand on the same piece of land. An astronomer in the 1700s, a bridge worker in the 1930s, and an expatriate banker returning home in the early twenty-first century: all three are transformed by this one magical event. And all three are struggling to understand what the meaning of βhomeβ is, and how to recognize it once youβre there. Widely praised for her βpoetic giftsβ (Booklist) and βgraceful, supremely honest, [and] thought-provokingβ (Kirkus Reviews) prose, Ashley Hay has crafted a luminous and unforgettable novel about the power of story, its ability to define the world around us, and the questions that transcend time.
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