Orbital: a novel
(Large Print)

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Published:
Thorndike, ME : Center Point Large Print, 2025.
Format:
Large Print
Edition:
Large print edition.
Physical Desc:
197 pages : map ; 23 cm
Status:
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.

Description

"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space-not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts-from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan-have left their lives behind to travel at warp speed as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise in regimented routines to prevent atrophying muscles; we witness them form bonds that will stand between them and utter solitude. Most of all, we are with them as they behold and record their silent blue planet. Their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets and the bright, blinking constellations of the galaxy are at once breathtakingly awesome and surprisingly intimate. So are the marks of civilization far below, encrusted on the planet on which we live. Profound, contemplative, and gorgeous, Orbital is a gift-a moving elegy to our humanity, environment, and planet"--

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Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Fiction Large Print
NEW LTE F HARVEY
Due Aug 14, 2025

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Language:
English
ISBN:
9798891644984

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APA Citation (style guide)

Harvey, S. (2025). Orbital: a novel. Large print edition. Center Point Large Print.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Harvey, Samantha, 1975-. 2025. Orbital: A Novel. Center Point Large Print.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Harvey, Samantha, 1975-, Orbital: A Novel. Center Point Large Print, 2025.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Harvey, Samantha. Orbital: A Novel. Large print edition. Center Point Large Print, 2025.

Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.

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