- EAN13
- 9781565128880
- Éditeur
- Algonquin Books
- Date de publication
- 06/2001
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Livre numérique
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Even before his birth, Johnny Baker's life is in danger. His mother breaks the
law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son
the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the
first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold
of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has
become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his
biography-culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew
him best-is published. The Song of the Earth is this "biography." It presents
a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-
first century.
Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space
travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has
altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures
are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain
the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame,
and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about
our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the
very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson
tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another
time and place.
law when she has her fertilized egg endowed with genes that will give her son
the potential to become a visual artist. Born in 2038, John Firth Baker is the
first genetically engineered artist. At the age of nineteen, at the threshold
of his career, he is murdered. Now, ten years after his death, Baker has
become famous. An art curator has organized a show of his work, and his
biography-culled from journals, e-mails, and interviews with those who knew
him best-is published. The Song of the Earth is this "biography." It presents
a powerful and haunting portrait of an artist as a young man in the twenty-
first century.
Baker is born into a world transformed by technology: genetic profiles, space
travel, and controlled housing communities are commonplace. Global warming has
altered the environment. A planetary gender war is raging, familial structures
are shattered, and new religions contend with the old. Yet human needs remain
the same: the search for love, the desire for approval, the longing for fame,
and the quest for knowledge. The Song of the Earth is a hypnotic novel about
our desire to control our destinies, our yearning for immortality, and the
very human impulse to create art. With prose, poetry, and images, Nissenson
tells an original tale that brilliantly captures the experience of another
time and place.
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