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001 2011045534
003 DLC
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008 111125s2012 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2011045534
020 $a9781608198108
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS3611.I443$bI54 2012
082 00 $a813/.6$223
084 $aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKiefer, Christian,$d1971-
245 14 $aThe infinite tides :$ba novel /$cChristian Kiefer.
250 $aFirst U.S. edition.
260 $aNew York :$bBloomsbury USA,$c2012.
263 $a1207
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten about him and moved on. Keith is a mathematical and engineering genius, but he is ill equipped to understand what has happened to him, and how he has arrived at the center of such vacancy. Then, he forges an unlikely friendship with a neighboring Ukrainian immigrant, and slowly begins to reconnect with the world around him. As the two men share their vastly different personal and professional experiences, they paint an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life. The result is a deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss and resilience, and of two lives lived under the weight of gravity"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aAstronauts$vFiction.
650 0 $aImmigrants$vFiction.
650 0 $aUkrainians$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aMale friendship$vFiction.
650 0 $aSuburban life$vFiction.
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/108/9781608198108/image/lgcover.9781608198108.jpg