Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This science-fiction fable is alternately intriguing, terrifying, confusing. On one level it portrays an environmental nightmare: an earth so toxified with pollution that nothing can live long or well. Another level tells us of a journey into the barely known—a space shuttle voyage for one hundred travelers who would escape the dying planet. On yet a third level, it is a wandering through the psychological labyrinth of seven intersecting personalities. These seven are sometimes difficult to track because of the complex web of relationships Calisher reveals to us, and because two of them share the same unlikely name. They are, however, the glue that holds this wide-ranging and haunting tale together." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)