Publication

1998 - Ballantine Pub. Group, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

85,500 words, Guess

Page Count

342 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing7485415

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3558.A3958 F57 1998

Description

On his death, a doctor has himself frozen in the hope science will one day reanimate him. That day arrives a century later and the novel describes the doctor's adjustment to a new world. One of his first acts is to clone his dead wife, which is now possible.

First Sentence

My great-great-grandmother stared into a spiderweb crack spreading through the dilapidated ceiling paint, its latticed shape taunting her as if she were a fly ensnared in its grip.

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Other Editions

  • The first immortalBallantine Pub. Group1998-01-01

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