Chloe Benjamin
Hardcover | Pages: 346 pages Rating: 3.72 | 133920 Users | 14221 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Immortalists |
| ISBN: | 0735213186 (ISBN13: 9780735213180) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2018) |
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If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life? It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes. The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in '80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality. A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.Be Specific About Based On Books The Immortalists
| Title | : | The Immortalists |
| Author | : | Chloe Benjamin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 346 pages |
| Published | : | January 9th 2018 by G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Contemporary. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 133920 Users | 14221 ReviewsArticle Based On Books The Immortalists
edit: ok it's only been a day, but i've thought about this some more and i realized i only put it at a 2.5 stars to be nice because this is such a popular book. it's gonna be a straight 2/5 from me, folks. ---2.5 starsi try to avoid using half stars (at least until goodreads decides to help a girl out and make them an option) but while i don't have strong enough feelings about this to justify a two, i didn't enjoy this book enough to give it a three. so, 2.5 it is. it was ok, in an "i was ableChloe Benjamin's epic The Immortalists has us considering some of the most fundamental and complex questions about life and how we live it. It is thought provoking as it asks does knowledge of our mortality make us live our life to the utmost or makes us fearful, guilty, and seek to outwit death? It is 1969 and in Manhattan, New York, the 4 Jewish Gold children seek a light hearted encounter with a gypsy psychic, who tells each of them their prophecies and their date of death. They cannot break
"And what if I change?" It seems impossible that Varya's future is already inside her like an actress just offstage, waiting decades to leave the wings. "Then you'd be special. 'Cause most people don't." 2 1/2 stars. I have a lot of mixed feelings about The Immortalists. Though there were parts I enjoyed, I was left feeling underwhelmed and like I'd recommend many other similar books before recommending this one.You should be aware that this is literary fiction and focuses in depth on the lives
See my exclusive interview with Chloe Benjamin about her novel The Immortalists here!There are two major theories about how to stop agingIt sounds like youre saying we can choose to live. Or we can choose to survive.Chloe Benjamins The Immortalists is a thoughtfully executed novel written in simple, yet often poetic, prose that allowed the characters voices at their most forceful to shine on their own past the narrative itself. More than that, it is a novel crafted around a question we all ask
I thought that this was going to be magical realism which I confess is not a subgenre that I enjoy. It isn't. Four siblings, as children, find out the date of their deaths and for the next fifty years their lives richochet about as they try to live with (or run from) this knowledge. The Immortalists is about life, the bonds between siblings as well as science, religion, dance and research monkeys. Yes, you read that correctly.
5 stars for a book that makes you think. "Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."What if you knew the day, the month, the year of your death? Would that make you live a different life? Would you try to compress all of life's experiences, the good, the seedy, and the bad into a short life projection? Would you languish your days knowing that you had many years in front of you and
"And what if I change?" It seems impossible that Varya's future is already inside her like an actress just offstage, waiting decades to leave the wings. "Then you'd be special. 'Cause most people don't." 2 1/2 stars. I have a lot of mixed feelings about The Immortalists. Though there were parts I enjoyed, I was left feeling underwhelmed and like I'd recommend many other similar books before recommending this one.You should be aware that this is literary fiction and focuses in depth on the lives
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