Sparrow

English

Series: Ballantine Readers Circle Ser.

ISBN: 0449912558

EAN: 9780449912553

Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / General/Fiction / Religious/

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 09/30/1997

Synopsis: ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYS TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense. --USA Today AN EXPERIENCE NOT TO BE MISSED . . . If you have to send a group of people to a newly discovered planet to contact a totally unknown species, whom would you choose? How about four Jesuit priests, a young astronomer, a physician, her engineer husband, and a child prostitute-turned-computer-expert? Thats who Mary Doria Russell sends in her new novel, The Sparrow. This motley combination of agnostics, true believers, and misfits becomes the first to explore the Alpha Centuri world of Rakhat with both enlightening and disastrous results. . . . Vivid and engaging . . . An incredible novel. --Milwaukee Journal Sentinel POWERFUL . . . Father Emilio Sandoz [is] the only survivor of a Jesuit mission to the planet Rakhat, a soul . . . looking for God. We first meet him in Italy . . . sullen and bitter. . . . But he was not always this way, as we learn through flashbacks that tell the story of the ill-fated trip. . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence. --San Francisco Chronicle SMOOTH STORYTELLING AND GORGEOUS CHARACTERIZATION . . . Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them. --Entertainment Weekly SELECTED BY THE BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

Awards: Arthur C. Clarke Award – null  British Science Fiction Association Awards – null  James Tiptree Jr. Award – null 

Sparrow

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.96 inches

Width: 5.5 inches

Length: 8.18 inches

Weight: 12.03 oz

Pages: 448