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The Path of Minor Planets

The Path of Minor Planets

by Andrew Sean Greer (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $3.40
Synopsis

It's 1965, on a small island in the South Pacific, a group of astronomers gather to witness the passing of a comet, but when a young boy dies during a meteor shower, the lives of the scientists and their loved ones change in subtle yet profound ways. Andrew Sean Greer's remarkable and sweeping novel is an exploration into chances taken and lost, of love found and broken, and of time's gravitational pull on the lives of everyday and extraordinary people.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 0571260233
ISBN 13: 9780571260232
Book Overview: A compassionate and remarkable skillfully drawn novel about chance, friendship, love and the passing of time, from the acclaimed author of The Story of a Marriage

Media Reviews
One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people' s emotional lives to come around in years. -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Greer pinpoints the ' tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial. -- The New Yorker
[Greer' s] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that' s worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world. -- The Boston Globe

One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people's emotional lives to come around in years. - San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
Greer pinpoints the 'tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial. - The New Yorker
[Greer's] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that's worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world. - The Boston Globe

One of the wisest, most compassionate novels about smart people's emotional lives to come around in years. -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

Greer pinpoints the 'tiny hidden madnesses in ordinary people' with unerring accuracy, and, in prose littered with sparks, makes palpable the longing for the celestial. -- The New Yorker

[Greer's] carefully crafted sentences can ring with ethereal beauty, and his metaphors are vivid and creative....Greer is a writer to watch; he has a literary style that's worth wrapping around his sensitive perspective on the world. -- The Boston Globe
Author Bio
Andrew Sean Greer is the author of three novels: The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, and The Path of Minor Planets, as well as the story collection How It Was for Me. He lives in San Francisco, California.