Castleberry, Brian
Nine shiny objects a novel Brian Castleberry - First edition - New York, NY Custom House 2020 - 319 pages 24 cm
"A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"-- June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago Oliver Danville, a failed actor now a pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, sets in motion the birth of 'the Seekers'-- a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. The group settle in the suburbs of Long Island; their purpose is revealed-- and a horrific crime occurs. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened: a clash between those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and others who relish the underworld. -- adapted from jacket
9780062984395 006298439X
2019044005
Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters--Fiction
Utopias--Fiction
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Historical / General
Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters
Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (State)--Long Island
PS3603.A883 / N56 2020
Cas 2
Nine shiny objects a novel Brian Castleberry - First edition - New York, NY Custom House 2020 - 319 pages 24 cm
"A stunning literary saga in the tradition of DeLillo and Egan, chronicling the unexpectedly and eerily intersecting lives of a lineage of American dreamers"-- June 26, 1947. Headlines across America report the sighting of nine pulsating lights flying over the Cascade Mountains at speeds surpassing any aircraft. In Chicago Oliver Danville, a failed actor now a pool hustler, hitchhikes west in a fever-dream quest for a possible sign from above. A chance encounter with Saul Penrod, an Idaho farmer, sets in motion the birth of 'the Seekers'-- a collective of outcasts, interlopers, and idealists devoted to creating a society where divisions of race, ethnicity, and sexuality are a thing of the past. The group settle in the suburbs of Long Island; their purpose is revealed-- and a horrific crime occurs. In the decades that follow, the perpetrators, survivors, and their children will be forced to face the consequences of what happened: a clash between those who seek inspiration from spacious skies, and others who relish the underworld. -- adapted from jacket
9780062984395 006298439X
2019044005
Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters--Fiction
Utopias--Fiction
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Political
Fiction / Historical / General
Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters
Long Island (N.Y.)--Fiction.
New York (State)--Long Island
PS3603.A883 / N56 2020
Cas 2