Better World Books; Amazon; Bookshop.org; Share this book. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders. John Christopher (Author) 3.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings. I don’t think I can stress enough the importance of actually getting to the heart of your story in your synopsis. The Year of the Comet: Amazon.ca: Lebedev, Sergei, Bouis, Antonina W.: Books. ‘Homegoing’ Author Returns with a Novel of Science and Faith. Strong Freedom in the Zone. If that little summary on the back of your book sets people up for the wrong expectations, it can really affect the amount of enjoyment readers glean from your story. Welcome back. The protagonist of Lebedev’s novel is eleven or so in that year, which is the central hinge of his narrative. Prime Cart. Please try again. Twitter.

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Ships from and sold by --SuperBookDeals-. Read Year of the Comet book reviews & author details and more … Amazon Price New from Used from Hardcover "Please retry" — — £49.99: Paperback "Please retry" £8.99 … - on the effects of the break-up. This stunning set of images come from a 16th-century treatise on comets, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and now held at the Universitätsbibliothek Kassel. . 3 BOOK THE FIRST THE COMET CHAPTER To see what your friends thought of this book. Please try again. This gorgeously written, unsettling novel—a rare work about the fall of the Soviet Union as told through the eyes of a child—leaves us with a fresh understanding of that towering moment in recent history."—. I am very nostalgic and appreciate the thoughtfulness with which the author considers what "breeds" a nostalgic person/family. It really captures that wrestling one goes through when forced to integrate pieces of information (or geography) that one has never put in the same conceptual space before. Save an extra 10% on almost everything & enjoy free shipping every day. Rumors of a serial killer haunt the neighborhood, families pack up and leave town without a word of warning, and the country begins to unravel.

Perks include receiving twice-a-year our very special themed postcard packs and getting 10% off our prints. An idyllic childhood takes a sinister turn. There were some startling images and amazing languages but I felt very distant from the narrator. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I got half-way through and nothing at all had happened. The latter however have been spectacularly upgraded. The comet is Halleys (harbinger of catastrophe) and the year is 1986, the year of the star Chernobyl. This Comet Book is in fact one of two near identical treatises. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon.