Cloud atlas /
"A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server&#...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Hodder and Stoughton/Sceptre,
2004.
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| Summary: | "A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death-row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators of Cloud Atlas hear each other's echoes down the corridor of history, and their destinies are changed in ways great and small."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 529 pages ; 24 cm |
| Awards: | Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2004, shortlist. |
| ISBN: | 0340822775 9780340822777 0340832371 9780340832370 9780340822784 0340822783 |