The Path of Minor Planets - Hardcover

Greer, Andrew Sean

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666 ratings by Goodreads

9780312275563: The Path of Minor Planets

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312275560 ISBN 13: 9780312275563

Publisher: Picador USA, 2001

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In 1965, the death of a young boy during a meteor shower has a profound impact on the lives of a group of scientists gathered on a small island in the South Pacific to witness a comet and their families, an influence that continues throughout the years. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.

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"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"

Book Description:

A compassionate and remarkable skillfully drawn novel about chance, friendship, love and the passing of time, from the acclaimed author of The Story of a Marriage

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