O’Malley Thomas O’Malley 
This Magnificent Desolation [EPUB ebook] 
A Novel

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Duncan’s entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose.Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua Mc Greevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world – and his wounds run deep too.Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home, and dreams of finding his real father.A heart-breaking, staggering, soaring novel, This Magnificent Desolation allows a child’s perspective to illuminate a dark world, and explores the creeping devastation of war, the many facets of loneliness, the redemptive power of the imagination, and the possibility of a kind of grace.

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Dil İngilizce ● Biçim EPUB ● Sayfalar 416 ● ISBN 9781608194711 ● Yayımcı Bloomsbury Publishing (USA) ● Yayınlanan 2013 ● İndirilebilir 6 kez ● Döviz EUR ● Kimlik 2613629 ● Kopya koruma Adobe DRM
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