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02463aam a2200445Ii 4500 001 FF3219EA01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230603010031 008 230511s2023 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2022049908 020 $a 0593467086 020 $a 9780593467084 020 $a 0593321626 020 $a 9780593321621 035 $a (OCoLC)1378783058 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c OQX $d OQX $d GPI $d MBT $d IWB $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3601.C5456 $b H35 2023 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Ackerman, Elliot, $e author. 245 10 $a Halcyon / $c Elliot Ackerman. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2023. 300 $a 237 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "From the best-selling author and National Book Award finalist, a chilling new novel that reimagines the United States emerging from a different outcome in a pivotal presidential election. Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. Ableson died a few years earlier. Or did he? When it becomes clear that scientists, funded by the Gore administration, have found a cure for death, more and more of life's certainties get called into question. Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil? Is Ableson a man outside of time, or is he the product of a new era? How does America's fate hang in the balance? Stretching from Civil War battles to the toppling of Confederate monuments, from scholarly debates to intimate family secrets, Halcyon is a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on layers of memory and forgetting"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Immortalism $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Alaska $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Divorced people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Alternative histories (Fiction) 650 0 $a Novels. 941 $a 8 952 $l XSPE157 $d 20231128011336.0 952 $l KQPC446 $d 20231028020147.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032624.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230802011019.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011655.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20230701010028.0 952 $l YKPE532 $d 20230607010523.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230603011457.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FF3219EA01D311EEACDD33752EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search