NY Times, 100 Best Books to Read "Cloud Atlas"

"It begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to his home in California. Along the way, Ewing is befriended by a physician, Dr. Goose, who begins to treat him for a rare species of brain parasite. Abruptly, the action jumps to Belgium in 1931, where Robert Frobisher, a disinherited bisexual composer, contrives his way into the household of an infirm maestro who has a beguiling wife & a nubile daughter. From there we jump to the West Coast in the 1970s & a troubled reporter named Luisa Rey, who stumbles upon a web of corporate greed & murder that threatens to claim her life. And onward, with dazzling virtuosity, to an inglorious present-day England; to a Korean superstate of the near future where neocapitalism has run amok; and, finally, to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history. But the story doesn’t end even there. The narrative then goes back through centuries & space, returning by the same route, in reverse, to its starting point." * Paperback, 509 pages * Pre-owned, great condition, pages are clean * Retail $15.00 * NY Times, 100 best books to read NOTE: The front outer cover has some wear, see last pic