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 ...
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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.
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Good in Very Good jacket. BF6-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket mylar sleeve endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the front and back free endpapers, and the title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. Illustrated with black and white as well as color reproductions of artwork. A novel set in 2057 about the first genetically engineered visual artist who has been murdered at the age of nineteen. This novel is his biography, organized around a retrospective of his work mounted at the Virtual Museum of Manual Art about ten years after his death. By the author of "A Pile of Stones, " "Notes from the Frontier, " "In the Reign of Peace, " "My Own Ground, " "The Tree of Life, " and "The Elephant and My Jewish Problem." 261p.
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Very Good + in Very Good + jacket. Book First edition, First printing. Book is in Very Good + condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a small amount of wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Tiny bit of shelf wear/rub. Tiniest bit of wear along the edges. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar wrapper. All-Ways well boxed, All-Ways fast service. Thanks and Enjoy.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Fine in a Fine dust jacket; a tight, unread copy in excellent condition. First Edition-First Printing with a full number line ending in 1. The book is protected in an archival Mylar cover; and will be very carefully packaged with protective material; and shipped in a new box. Rest assured, that we always treat all of our books, and book buyers with the utmost respect.
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