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Bezig met laden... The Song of the Earth (2001)door Hugh Nissenson
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Why is Hugh Nissenson not better known? He is not a science fiction writer, and yet, The Song of the Earth is a novel filled with future shock. It is at once an ode to a dying earth and a warning regarding the sorrows of technology as it mistakenly informs art. The book, written as the fake biography of a famous pansexual painter (birthed specifically for his artistic ability), is also a fragmented reflection, if that is the word, on the consequences of the war between the sexes: where men and women leading separate lives are destined to become co-conspirators in a miserable society. In a dystopia, the family is more vulnerable than religion. One of the better sci-fi novels of the past decade. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his biography-culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew him best-is published. The Song of the Earth is this "biography." It presents a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-first century. Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame, and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another time and place. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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