
This Magnificent Desolation
A Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction book. Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back. Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation //
Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost on the open plains of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often...
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- Pages: 416 pages
- ISBN: 9781408833803 / 0
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Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back. Thomas O'Malley, This Magnificent Desolation //
Didn't finish. So boring!!! The more I read of this book the more attached I grew to the story and its characters. I picked this book up because it looked interesting. I never expected to enjoy the read as much as I did. Something to read slowly and carefully. And to be sad about when it ends...