Format:
Book
Author:
Benjamin, Chloe, author.
Title:
The immortalists / Chloe Benjamin.
Publisher, Date:
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2018]
Description:
346 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:
It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children -- four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness -- sneak out to hear their fortunes. Their prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco. Dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy. Eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11, hoping to control fate. Bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
Subjects:
Prophecies -- Fiction.
Magic Realism.
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
Fortune-tellers -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.
Aging -- Fiction.
Magicians -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Family Life / General.
FICTION / Coming of Age.
Families -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Prophecies.
Magicians.
Fate and fatalism.
Aging.
Brothers and sisters.
Families.
Fortune-tellers.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
United States -- Fiction.
United States.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Notes:
New York Times Best Seller List.
LCCN:
2016053641
ISBN:
9780735213180
0735213186
* 9780735218406
* 9780735213197
9780735218406
0735218404
9780735213180
Other Number:
968151453
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
107127
Call Number:
F BEN
Course Reserves:
0
# Local items in:
1
# System items in:
1