The Path of Minor Planets (Paperback)

Andrew Sean Greer (author)

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Paperback 304 Pages / Published: 03/03/2011

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Synopsis Author

It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Andrew Sean Greer's remarkable and sweeping novel is an exploration into chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of time's gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571260232
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 314 g
Dimensions: 215 x 136 x 21 mm
Edition: Main

MEDIA REVIEWS

" One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people' s emotional lives to come around in years." -- "San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"
" Greer pinpoints the ' tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial." -- "The New Yorker"
" [Greer' s] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that' s worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world." -- "The Boston Globe"

"One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people's emotional lives to come around in years." -"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"
"Greer pinpoints the 'tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial." -"The New Yorker"
"[Greer's] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that's worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world." -"The Boston Globe"

"One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people's emotional lives to come around in years." --"San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"

"Greer pinpoints the 'tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial." --"The New Yorker"

"[Greer's] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that's worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world." --"The Boston Globe"

Andrew Sean Greer

The winner of 2018’s Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel Less, American author Andrew Sean Greer counts John Updike, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and John Irving among his many fans. An identical twin, Greer grew up in Washington DC and after several years working variously – in his own words – as a ‘chauffeur, television extra and unsuccessful writer’ he started writing for magazines including The New Yorker and published the acclaimed short-story collection How It Was for Me. His other works include The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, The Story of a Marriage and The Path of Minor Planets.

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