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1096648Halcyonhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/halcyon-5/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1453231/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638587546861630000199259MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (An expert juggling act. Stephen Markley, <em>New York Times Book Review)</em></strong></p><p>Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Its 2004, and Gore is entering his second term as president, when news breaks that scientists have discovered a cure for death. Suddenly, Martin is forced to question everything he thought he understood about the world around him. Who is Ableson, really? Why has Martin been drawn into the Ablesons most closely guarded family secrets? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?</p><p>From pivotal elections to crumbling marriages, from the Civil War to the Battle of Saipan, <em>Halcyon</em> is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.</p>...1090524Halcyon199259https://www.gandhi.com.mx/halcyon-5/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/1453231/fae86943-9713-44aa-8515-8f2a2fca268c.jpg?v=638587546861630000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20239780593321638_W3siaWQiOiIwNTJjZjg0YS0zYWJiLTRkYmQtYjA1Ni1iMjM0ODdhOTg2ZmUiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjI1OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjYwLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE5OSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDlUMDQ6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780593321638_<p><strong>From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election.</strong></p><p>Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of lifes certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does Americas fate hang in the balance? Stretching from Civil War battles to the toppling of Confederate monuments, from scholarly debates to intimate family secrets, <em>Halcyon</em> is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on layers of memory and forgetting.</p>...(*_*)9780593321638_<p><strong>A daring new novel, at once timely and timeless, set around an American family and the ever-shifting sands of history and memory and legacy that define them (An expert juggling act. Stephen Markley, <em>New York Times Book Review)</em></strong></p><p>Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the Virginia estate of renowned lawyer, family patriarch, and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Its 2004, and Gore is entering his second term as president, when news breaks that scientists have discovered a cure for death. Suddenly, Martin is forced to question everything he thought he understood about the world around him. Who is Ableson, really? Why has Martin been drawn into the Ablesons most closely guarded family secrets? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?</p><p>From pivotal elections to crumbling marriages, from the Civil War to the Battle of Saipan, <em>Halcyon</em> is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.</p>...9780593321638_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_67859ac6-8e0d-3d7b-b1b5-45f6a17cd49d_9780593321638;9780593321638_9780593321638Elliot AckermanInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-8c593823-7db3-4400-be1a-52b6e5b14eef.epub2023-05-23T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group