"Abandoned children." . . "Loss (Psychology) in children." . . "Abandoned children Fiction." . . "Families." . . "Minnesota" . . "Minnesota." . "Imagination in children." . . "1961 - 1975" . . "Loneliness in children Fiction." . . "Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Veterans Fiction." . . . . "Veterans." . . "Roman." . . "California" . . "Man-woman relationships." . . "Families Fiction." . . "Father-son relationship Fiction." . . "Mothers and sons Fiction." . . "Imagination in children Fiction." . . "Loneliness in children." . . "Loss (Psychology) in children Fiction." . . "Vietnam War (1961-1975)" . . . "Englisch." . . "Man-woman relationships Fiction." . . . . "Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world - and his wounds run deep too. Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home, and dreams of finding his real father." . "Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Aged ten in 1980, he has no memories of his life before now, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him. Maggie Bright, a soprano who was once the talent of her generation, now sings in a San Francisco bar through a haze of whisky cut with sharp regret. She often finishes up in the arms of Joshua McGreevey, a Vietnam vet who earns his living as part of a tunneling crew seventy feet beneath the Bay. He smells of sea silt and loam, as if he has been dredged from the deep bottom of the world - and his wounds run deep too. Thrown into this mysterious adult world, Duncan finds comfort in an ancient radio, from which tumble the voices of Apollo mission astronauts who never came home, and dreams of finding his real father."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Psychological fiction" . "This magnificent desolation"@en . "This magnificent desolation" . . . . . . . . . . . . . "This magnificent desolation : a novel" . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover." . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Als een tienjarige jongen uit een weeshuis in Minnesota wordt opgehaald door zijn moeder, ooit een beroemde operazangeres, volgen wonderlijke belevenissen." . . . . . . . . "This magnificent desolation a novel" . "Magnificent desolation" . . "Electronic books"@en . . "Electronic books" . . . "Mothers and sons." . . "San Francisco (Calif.)" . .