The Fluent Sculpture of Time
Book Details
Author(s)Jonathan DeCoteau
ISBN / ASINB005HXXS0Y
ISBN-13978B005HXXS07
Sales Rank3,017,818
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
What if science conquered death and anyone who ever lived could be resurrected for a normal life? What if immortality became as much a constitutional right as the freedom of speech?
In The Fluent Sculpture of Time, Fara O’Malley is a fifteen-year-old American girl from the twenty-seventh century facing just this issue. Her grandfather, Everett, a poet, succumbs to Alzheimer’s Disease. The only cure: death surgery. The decision of whether or not to kill and resurrect Everett leads to moral questions about life and the afterlife. Everett wishes to join his late wife in a natural death and believes in Heaven. Fara’s mom wants to keep her father alive indefinitely. When Everett is resurrected, Fara must come to terms with the fact that he is not the same man. His memories are intact, but his emotions are flat. Using the language of poetry, Fara must teach Everett how to be human again and how to love. In return, Everett must teach Fara how to say goodbye when death proves too powerful to ever become fully extinct.
In The Fluent Sculpture of Time, Fara O’Malley is a fifteen-year-old American girl from the twenty-seventh century facing just this issue. Her grandfather, Everett, a poet, succumbs to Alzheimer’s Disease. The only cure: death surgery. The decision of whether or not to kill and resurrect Everett leads to moral questions about life and the afterlife. Everett wishes to join his late wife in a natural death and believes in Heaven. Fara’s mom wants to keep her father alive indefinitely. When Everett is resurrected, Fara must come to terms with the fact that he is not the same man. His memories are intact, but his emotions are flat. Using the language of poetry, Fara must teach Everett how to be human again and how to love. In return, Everett must teach Fara how to say goodbye when death proves too powerful to ever become fully extinct.
