The Resource The infinite tides : a novel, Christian Kiefer
The infinite tides : a novel, Christian Kiefer
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The item The infinite tides : a novel, Christian Kiefer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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- Summary
- "Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten about him and moved on. Keith is a mathematical and engineering genius, but he is ill equipped to understand what has happened to him, and how he has arrived at the center of such vacancy. Then, he forges an unlikely friendship with a neighboring Ukrainian immigrant, and slowly begins to reconnect with the world around him. As the two men share their vastly different personal and professional experiences, they paint an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life. The result is a deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss and resilience, and of two lives lived under the weight of gravity"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 393 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608198108
- Label
- The infinite tides : a novel
- Title
- The infinite tides
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Christian Kiefer
- Subject
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- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- trueSuburban life
- Suburban life -- Fiction
- Ukrainians -- United States -- Fiction
- trueUkrainians in the United States
- trueAstronauts
- Astronauts -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- FICTION / Literary
- trueFriendship
- trueGrief in men
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueMidlife crisis in men
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten about him and moved on. Keith is a mathematical and engineering genius, but he is ill equipped to understand what has happened to him, and how he has arrived at the center of such vacancy. Then, he forges an unlikely friendship with a neighboring Ukrainian immigrant, and slowly begins to reconnect with the world around him. As the two men share their vastly different personal and professional experiences, they paint an indelible and nuanced portrait of modern American life. The result is a deeply moving, tragicomic and ultimately redemptive story of love, loss and resilience, and of two lives lived under the weight of gravity"--
- Summary
- Achieving the goal of a lifetime when he arrives aboard the International Space Station, astronaut and math genius Keith Corcoran is shattered to receive news that his wife has left him and that his 16-year-old daughter has died in a car accident, a situation from which he gradually recovers at the side of an unlikely friend
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10118923
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1971-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kiefer, Christian
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3611.I443
- LC item number
- I54 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Astronauts
- Immigrants
- Ukrainians
- Male friendship
- Suburban life
- FICTION / Literary
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The infinite tides : a novel, Christian Kiefer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2011045534
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 393 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608198108
- Lccn
- 2011045534
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Label
- The infinite tides : a novel, Christian Kiefer
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2011045534
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 393 pages
- Isbn
- 9781608198108
- Lccn
- 2011045534
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
Subject
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- trueSelf-discovery in men
- trueSuburban life
- Suburban life -- Fiction
- Ukrainians -- United States -- Fiction
- trueUkrainians in the United States
- trueAstronauts
- Astronauts -- Fiction
- trueCoping
- FICTION / Literary
- trueFriendship
- trueGrief in men
- trueImmigrants
- Immigrants -- Fiction
- trueMainstream fiction
- Male friendship -- Fiction
- trueMidlife crisis in men
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