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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A gentle story of veteran buddies who accepted a post-college job with a rather shady foundation and have spent 30 years in New Mexico, drawing maps and banking a salary, never quite sure why they are doing this job. In one summer, their privacy is invaded by a team of archaeologists, a young film maker building a fake town to record as it is flooded in the fall rains, and a second young woman who seems to just hang about. Deeply suspicious of the newcomers, Paul and John's life begins to show cracks. Beautiful. ( ) I am sad and sorry that this remarkable book has only 8 members listing it on LT. Paul Merline and John Suope have been mapping a small part of the New Mexico desert since the 1950s, working for a Foundation that has never told them what it wants the information for. They believe that they know everything there is to know about their patch of desert - and subconsciously, Merline at least believes he knows all there is to know about himself and his partner. But recently, new characters have disturbed their routine - archaeologists pulling prehistoric remains out of the earth, and a film student knocking together a jerry-built townscape as part of her graduation project. The different perspectives that the newcomers bring make the landscape shift under the surveyors' feet - and their different reactions to the changes lead Merline to realise that his understanding of his partner, and himself, are equally shallowly rooted. The book is rich with layers of metaphor, but at the same time, the story draws you in, and stands on its own. Sample: The delicate ratio of human to empty square mile has crossed an invisible threshold and like cargo shifting in a poorly loaded freighter promises only disaster. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
When archaeologists, film makers, and a beautiful young women named Caliope intrude on their silent and solitary world, everything changes. A poignant novel about two middle-aged men, their magical and mysterious desert home, and the sudden shift in terrain that alters both their sense of place and the structure of their 30-year friendship. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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