Specimen Days [first edition]

A New York Times Bestseller In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, and a woman in New York City. Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in one of the world's greatest cities, and a meditation on the direction and meaning of American's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.