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Robert Kelly
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Publication date
September 30, 2008
Pages
247
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781556437557
ISBN-10
1556437552
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Original list price
$15.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: âIâm on my way back. I was one of the first they took away.â So begins Robert Kellyâs remarkable science fiction novel about a literally divided self. âIâ is Billy, the bookâs protagonist, a boy who is captured by a group of aliens who take him to a cave and meticulously, if seemingly by caprice, remove his âyoung pure smokeless lungsâ and other internal organs to replace them with two gray squirrels, a live hawk, a shoe, and a variety of other bizarre objects. Billyâs body and mind are spun off into a curious twin, one whose adventures Billy is forced by his captors to watch and try to make sense ofânot a simple task when he sees his doppelgänger stealing everything from him: body, name, family, his beloved Eileen. Complicating matters, and forcing Billy deeper into his ironic journey of self, is a mysterious pamphlet called âThe Book from the Sky,â written by what may be yet another variation of Billy himself, Brother William. This stunningly imaginative work, echoing the late novels of Iris Murdoch and the fantasies of Robert Charles Wilson and Jonathan Stroud while remaining inimitably Kellyâs own, offers adventurous readers a âcabinet of wondersâ not unlike the body of his beleaguered young hero.
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Paperback
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from North Atlantic Books (September 30, 2008)
9781556437557 | details & prices | 247 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $15.95
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