The Book of Immortality by Adam Leith Gollner

Author:Adam Leith Gollner [Gollner, Adam Leith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, General
ISBN: 9781439109427
Google: n_cfNO1TC-4C
Amazon: 1439109427
Barnesnoble: 1439109427
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2013-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

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The idea of a one-trick pony who keeps blowing your mind returned to me a few hours later when, perusing the bookshelves in my room, I came upon a copy of Beyond Imagination, the sequel to his first anthology of short stories. This one, which focused on “the magic of the human condition,” contained another of Copperfield’s own stories. As with the previous one, the hero’s name was Adam. This Adam loved collecting sun-bleached driftwood. The plot revolved around Adam’s discovery of an invisible baby eagle. He decides to tell people about his pet eagle, hoping it’ll make others like him, but instead, when they ask to see it and he refuses, they start mocking him. In the end, however, he makes the impossible happen, amazes everybody, and is rewarded handsomely for his magical abilities.

As I lay there, drifting to sleep, I thought of the egret that crossed our path as soon as we landed on the island, how we’d spoken about eaglets and egrets. Fiction and reality seemed to be overlapping in an almost destabilizing way. A Shakespearean hero who orchestrates an elaborate setup on his island, using “trumpery” to reinstate himself as king. A storybook Adam in a world of bleached-white wood, baby eagles, and real magic. A famous magician who’d found a liquid that no one could see that reverses genes.

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