A registry of my passage upon the earth : stories
Record details
- ISBN: 031647763X
- ISBN: 9780316477635
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Physical Description:
vii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Death of the pugilist, or the famous battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGraw -- The ecstasy of Alfred Russel Wallace -- For the Union dead -- The second doctor service -- The miraculous discovery of Psammetichus I -- On growing ferns and other plants in glass cases, in the midst of the smoke of London -- The line agent Pascal -- On the cause of winds and waves, &c -- A registry of my passage upon the earth. |
Summary, etc.: | "On a fateful flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle fighter prepares to face his most fearsome opponent, while a young mother seeks a miraculous cure for her ailing son."--Provided by publisher. |
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Subject: | Short stories |
Genre: | Short stories. Historical fiction. |
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A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth : Stories
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Author Notes
A Registry of My Passage upon the Earth : Stories
Daniel Mason is the author of the collection A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth , a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the California Book Award, and three novels, including The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner . His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.