Cunningham, Michael, 1952-

Specimen days / Michael Cunningham. - 1st ed. - New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, c2005. - x, 308 p. ; 24 cm.

In a novel of human progress and social decline, three characters are seen in three different eras: the Industrial Revolution; the 21st century and 150 years into the future as the poet Walt Whitman presides over each episode.

ISBN: 0374299625 : $25.00

LCCN: 2005040518

Subjects--Personal Names:
Whitman, Walt--Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Machinery--Fiction.
Industrial revolution--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fantasy fiction.
Ghost stories.

LC Class. No.: PS3553.U484 / S64 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54