The Wonders: A Novel From the author ofthe “funny, irreverent, and highly entertaining” (Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband’s Secret) Fine Color of Rust comes a brilliant new nove
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| Title | : | The Wonders: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476766363 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-10 |
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From the author ofthe “funny, irreverent, and highly entertaining” (Liane Moriarty, author of The Husband’s Secret) Fine Color of Rust comes a brilliant new novel about a misfit trio who become instant international reality stars, probing the nature of celebrity, disability, and the value of human life.
Perhaps every human being was a freak. Hadn’t he read somewhere that every person has at least a handful of damaged genes? That all humans embody a myriad of nature’s mistakes?
Meet Leon (stage name: Clockwork Man), a nervous, introverted thirty-year-old man with a brass heart; Kathryn (stage name: Lady Lamb), a brash, sexy woman covered almost entirely with black, tightly furled wool; and Christos (stage name: Seraphiel), a vain performance artist who plays a winged god with the help of ceramic implants inserted between his shoulder blades. These are The Wonders, three extraordinary people whose medical treatme
Editorial : Praise for The Wonders:
“In a novel that feels both sharply realistic and wildly, indelibly imaginative, O'Reilly offers a story about the stars of a glamorous freak show that sidesteps any expectations of sentimental quirk with wit and deep feeling…The impossible slides skillfully into the believable here; O'Reilly's delightful novel never shirks its responsibility to emotional truth as it tells a story about being known and being different.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))
“Full of the humour and quick wit that attracted readers to O’Reilly’s previous novel, The Fine Color of Rust. The Wonders asks how and why those who differ from the norm are desired or condemned by those who sit comfortably within it. This insight into the private lives of extraordinary people is reminiscent of Sara Gruen’s Water for Elephants, and The Wonders has a similarly broad appeal.” (
This is a beautifully written collection of lessons on the interior, spiritual life.
The central theme to the book seems to be that one can never rest in the quest for a perfect contemplative and spiritual life, as elusive and impossible as those goals might be. The book is lots of fun because of the rhyming words and also fun words that the author chose to describe the raindrops like ping-ping-ping of the rainy hitting the awning,Gurlge, Gurgle it goes down the water spout, pitty-plip-plop, pitty-pat-splat the rain drops I caught in my hat, and run-a-tum-tum raindrops on my umbrella!
Not only are the illustrations nice, the rhyming fun but there is also a little game of guess the animal by the sound it makes. I hope that I see a dog-eared, frequently read copy on their bookshelves in the years to come.
Thank you, Mr Jones!
-RCH Sr-. I first started reading this book as it was offered to me for a voluntary review. . can't really mess up a ca
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