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The Body in the Clouds
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 “exquisitely written and
deeply felt” (Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret
Chord) novel The Railwayman’s 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 moment—a man falling from the sky, and
surviving—and 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 “home” is,
and how to recognize it once you’re there. Widely praised for her “poetic gifts” (Booklist) and
“graceful, supremely honest, [and] thought-provoking”
(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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