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The beautiful miscellaneous : a novel / Dominic Smith.

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Record Number 747999
ISBN 9780743271257 (paperback)
0743271254 (paperback)
Author Smith, Dominic, 1971- author.
Title The beautiful miscellaneous : a novel / Dominic Smith.
Edition First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Publisher/Date New York : Washington Square Press, 2008.
©2007.
Pagination etc. 329, [13] pages ; 23 cm.
Contents note Includes "A Readers Club Guide" (page [13]).
Summary Note Nathan Nelson is the average son of a genius. His father, a physicist of small renown, has prodded him toward greatness from an early age -- enrolling him in whiz kid summer camps, taking him to the icy tundra of Canada to track a solar eclipse, and teaching him college algebra. But despite Samuel Nelson's efforts, Nathan remains ordinary. Then, in the summer of 1987, everything changes. While visiting his small-town grandfather in Michigan, Nathan is involved in a terrible accident. After a brief clinical death -- which he later recalls as a lackluster affair lasting less than the length of a Top 40 pop song -- he falls into a coma. When he awakens, Nathan finds that everyday life is radically different. His perceptions of sight, sound, and memory have been irrevocably changed. The doctors and his parents fear permanent brain damage. But the truth of his condition is more unexpected and leads to a renewed chance for Nathan to find his place in the world.
Subject Near-death experiences -- Fiction
Physics -- Fiction
Fathers and sons -- Fiction
Shelf Location F SMIT
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