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Million Heavens

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Description for Million Heavens Paperback. The new literary tour-de-force from the author of Citrus County Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 438.

In a hospital in a small New Mexico town, a father sits by the bed of his young son, who is in a coma. Outside, a group of locals gather to hold vigil for the boy, each drawn by their own reasons.

Every member of the group has their own story. There's Dannie, a 33-year-old woman, desperate for children, and...

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In a hospital in a small New Mexico town, a father sits by the bed of his young son, who is in a coma. Outside, a group of locals gather to hold vigil for the boy, each drawn by their own reasons.

Every member of the group has their own story. There's Dannie, a 33-year-old woman, desperate for children, and fighting to salvage her relationship with her 20-year-old boyfriend. Then there's Cecelia - a musician who is grieving for a man who never knew he was the love of her life. And then there's Mayor Carbrera - half-heartedly trying to keep the town afloat, and holding out hope that a religious cult will move in and become the answer to all his problems.

Hugely acclaimed when published in the US, A Million Heavens is an extraordinary novel by one of the most promising young American authors.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349138862
SKU
V9780349138862
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About John Brandon
John Brandon was raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida, and has worked at a lumber mill, a windshield warehouse, and a Coca-Cola distributor. Acclaim for his first novel, Arkansas, led to his appointment as John & Renee Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi.

Reviews for Million Heavens
[John Brandon] deftly renders a desert wilderness where human hearts are compelled to seek isolation from the pains of the world, but tend to find connectedness despite themselves
Publishers Weekly
A surreal exploration of the origin of inspiration, of what connects humans to each other and to their surroundings. ...Brandon's gift for conjuring a powerful sense...
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[John Brandon] deftly renders a desert wilderness where human hearts are compelled to seek isolation from the pains of the world, but tend to find connectedness despite themselves
Publishers Weekly
A surreal exploration of the origin of inspiration, of what connects humans to each other and to their surroundings. ...Brandon's gift for conjuring a powerful sense of place has never been stronger as the high-desert sands invade every nook and cranny of the lives of his characters
Booklist
John Brandon is a great young writer who can - and probably will - do just about anything
San Francisco Chronicle
Wondrous... More than once I handed A Million Heavens to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph, then onto the next page.... I had to stop reading to actually pace, marvelling at what one writer can imagine, what a novel is capable of holding
New York Times Book Review
John Brandon is my favourite new writer. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy
Tom Franklin
The interplay of fantasy and reality permeating this lattice of storylines renders this a richly nuanced and multidimensional read
The Lady

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