Long for This World

  • Long for This World: A Novel
    By Michael Byers

    Long odds, but they did come home, and genetics was still an obscure enough science that most people discovered there was such a thing as Hickman only when their child began to look funny at the age of two or three.

  • Long for this World
    By Michael Byers

    Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.

  • Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
    By Jonathan Weiner

    Marlowe defined the apologists' position for modern times; and a few years later another Cambridge graduate, a young lawyer and philosopher, Francis Bacon, defined the opposing position. The grand project of Bacon's life was the ...

  • Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality
    By Jonathan Weiner

    “[A] searching and surprisingly witty look at the scientific odds against tomorrow.” —Timothy Ferris Jonathan Weiner—winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and one ...

  • Long for This World: A Novel
    By Michael Byers

    Specializing in a rare disease that causes children to age drastically, Dr. Henry Moss is confronted with an ethical dilemma when he meets a family whose two children are affected in dramatically different ways by the same disease.

  • Long for This World: A Novel
    By Sonya Chung

    Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel.

  • Long for this World: New and Selected Poems
    By Ronald Wallace

    Long for This World features the best of Ronald Wallace's work from his previous collections of poetry--Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks , Tunes for Bears to Dance To, People and...

  • Long for This World: A Novel
    By Michael Byers

    Dr Henry Moss is a decent, gentle, physician whose life work is the study of Hickman Syndrome.

  • Long For This World: New And Selected Poems
    By Ronald Wallace

    ... His mother. Even his daughters passed through sleep. The lamp turned off, the bird, the star, the bright amphibian. And then they all were gone, these lights of his. And he, at last, was left with dark enough. Long for This World: New ...