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The high heaven : a novel / Joshua Wheeler.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.H42985 H54 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Joshua, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unidentified flying object cults--Fiction.
- Unidentified flying object cults.
- Cults--New Mexico--Fiction.
- Cults.
- Astronautics and civilization--Fiction.
- Astronautics and civilization.
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Fiction.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Southwest, New--Fiction.
- Southwest, New.
- Genre:
- Novels
- Historical fiction.
- Picaresque fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 329 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "In 1967, on the night of the first Apollo mission, a child named Izzy is orphaned when the doomsday cult she was born into clashes with the sheriff in the high desert of New Mexico. She's taken in by a struggling rancher who is trying to keep his mind from falling apart as NASA rocket tests encroach on his outer range. Inspired by the true story of a UFO cult in a village near White Sands, this novel traces Izzy Gently's whole life: from tragedy on the ranch, through addiction and a rich cast of eccentrics in Texas, to New Orleans, where Izzy is haunted by her past even as she uses lessons from childhood to counsel people who have lost the ability to see the moon. In The High Heaven, Joshua Wheeler explores American piety as it mutates over the course of the Space Age, as technology changes notions of both humanity and the heavens. Shot through with the speculative while paying homage to three iconic genres--neo-Western, picaresque, and Southern gothic--Izzy's life story becomes a mirror for the warping of manifest destiny and, ultimately, a testament to the human will to seek meaning from the universe. Suffused with the absurdist history of American space travel and the wide-open landscapes of the Southwest, The High Heaven chronicles a larger-than-life adventure of one extraordinary woman who, despite tragedy, never loses sight of redemption"-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wheeler, Joshua, 1984- High Heaven
- ISBN:
- 9781644453575
- 1644453576
- OCLC:
- 1478324575
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000282945
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