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In a future where every U.S. citizen has an imprisoned clone to fulfill their medical needs, Ray is asked by an old friend to help hide an escaped clone, who happens to be a clone of himself.
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- EditoreBlackstone Pub
- Data di pubblicazione2010
- ISBN 10 1433272725
- ISBN 13 9781433272721
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Descrizione libro audioCD. Condizione: new. Unabridged. Product Description The year is 2071 It is a world very recognizable to our own only now the United States has implemented a widescale governmentrun cloning program that is tied directly to health insurance Each US citizen has a Copy living separately in a cleared zone in the Midwest If an Original is sick or injured and requires surgery whatever he or she needs is taken from their clone In the two decades since the programs inception no person outside the government has ever seen their Copy or been inside the Clearances and no clone has ever successfully escaped until now The Bradbury Report is a fascinating meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of as a race and society It is a powerful work of speculative fiction beautifully written about love identity free will aging and intelligence that you will linger with you long after reading About the Author STEVEN POLANSKY grew up in New York City His short fiction has appeared in among other places the New Yorker Harpers Best American Short Stories Glimmer Train New England Review and Minnesota Monthly His first book the story collection Dating Miss Universe won the Sandstone Prize for Fiction and the Minnesota Book Award He lives in Appleton Wisconsin with his wife and daughter From AudioFile The protagonist in Steven Polanskys debut novel is named Raymond Bradbury which is rather confusing Nevertheless the authors portrait of medical cloning and its effects on a nearfuture society is compelling especially as enhanced by the deepest voice in audio that of Stefan Rudnicki Voicing a dogtired man at the end of his rope Rudnicki reads in a monotone eschewing emotion or verve in favor of grim exhaustion As the story moves forward relentlessly the listener is immersed in a world in which a man can live for too long a time drifting with no discernible purpose or goal Later as copious dialogue takes center stage Rudnicki defines various characters and their traits allowing the listener some auditory relief from this bleak world AZW AudioFile 2010 Portland Maine. Codice articolo DADAX1433272725
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