The Deep Field : A Novel [Unknown Binding]

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• Unknown Binding
• Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Company (2000)
• ASIN: B002259EZS
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A new way of seeing, August 20, 2000

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Friederike Knabe (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Deep Field: A Novel (Hardcover)

Bradley's The Deep Field is a multi-faceted and multi-layered novel. Although set in the future, starting somewhere aound 2010 and going well beyond the next couple of centuries, the speculative fiction aspect of the book is an intriguing but not the most important aspect. It is part thriller, based around the disappearance of a soul-mate brother in the polical unrest in Hongkong, part social critique of the situation of street people and other outcasts in the near future. Finally, it is part romance and exploration of time, relationships and art. The most fascinating layer of this fully engrossing book is the evolving main character, a woman photograher, who step by step learns to see in completely new ways thanks to the growing influence over her by a blind paleontologist who sees with his hands and feels the history of life in ammonite fossils.

5.0 out of 5 stars James Bradley insightful, January 3, 2007

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Walter L. Mcghee (Toledo, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Deep Field (Hardcover)

This is a book which I found provided much insight not only in historial terms but seems to connect well to current events. This not only encourages an understanding of historical perspective but also a deeper understanding of the Americans as seen by others.

3.0 out of 5 stars Some Potential in James Bradley, August 29, 2001

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Goner (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Deep Field: A Novel (Hardcover)

I agree with both of my fellow reviewers to some degree in that Mr. Bradley's potential would benefit greatly from a bit guidance on the the part of an editor and that the speculative fiction aspect of the book was provocative. (I'm sure if I had an editor I wouln't have written such a ridiculously long sentence) Anyway I enjoyed Bradley's use of language and bright vivd images to explain where the main charcter was in her life. I however didn't see any evidence of this being a thriller just because the brother is missing. All in all I would say it is more a story of a young woman's life and her struggle to reclaim it as such.