The Immortalists

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DESCRIPTION : The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller'The Immortalists is about as good as it gets' Karen Joy Fowler'Like literary nectar' Hannah Beckerman'I couldn't put it down' Ca rys BrayIf you knew the date of your death, how would you live?It's 1969, and holed up in a grimy tenement building in New York's Lower East Side is a travelling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the date they will die. The four Gold children, too young for what they're about to hear, sneak out to learn their fortunes.Over the years that follow, the siblings must choose how to live with the prophecies the fortune-teller gave them that day. Will they accept, ignore, cheat or defy them? Golden-boy Simon escapes to San Francisco, searching for love; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician; eldest son Daniel tries to control fate as an army doctor after 9/11; and bookish Varya looks to science for the answers she craves.A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists is a story about how we live, how we die, and what we do with the time we have. PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781472244994 BY (AUTHOR) Benjamin, Chloe PUBLISHER : Headline Publishing Group PUBLICATION DATE : January 09, 2018 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Tinder Press LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 232 mm x 152 mm WEIGHT : 540 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items Show more