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Cloud Atlas

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Author: Mitchell, David
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Sceptre
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Publication Year: 2005-02-21
ISBN#: 978-0-340-82278-4
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Pages: 529
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Language: English

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The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. Others are a journalist in Governor Reagan’s California, and genetically-modified dinery server on death-row. Finally, a young Pacific Islander witnesses the nightfall of science and civilization.