Bibliograph

Halcyon, a novel, Elliot Ackerman

Type

Label

Halcyon, a novel, Elliot Ackerman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Halcyon

Oclc number

1336889031

Responsibility statement

Elliot Ackerman

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit? Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil?

Target audience

adult

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