Specimen Days |
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Michael Cunningham
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Pages: 320 (Paperback)
ISBN: 000719384X
Pub: Fourth Estate
Pub date: 2005-07-04
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 476716
Reader Reviews:
Disappointing (1/1 people found this helpful)
Having revelled in The Hours, I eagerly grasped a copy of Specimen Days when it appeared. Unfortunately, it did not deliver. Whereas The Hours is a magnificent blending of lives and times, Specimen Days is a rather odd creation.
There are three separate stories, each set in a different time period, essentially past, present and future. They are linked by the central characters who turn up in different guises, and by the verse of Walt Whitman. However, it is diffiult to relate to the characters in their disparate forms, and when they emerged as some type of reptilian beast in the final story, I rather lost any feeling I had had for them.
It may be that devotees of Walt Whitman will find this novel to their taste, but I found it a disappointing read.
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