- Daughters, Death, Fiction, Human cloning
A bereaved doctor undertakes a diabolical experiment in a shattering philosophical thriller that anticipates the moral, social, and metaphysical dilemmas science is poised to confront.Davis Moore is a fertility doctor in Chicago specializing in reproductive cloning, a controversial and closely regulated new practice, when his seventeen-year-old daughter is brutally raped and murdered.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and bleak.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Kevin Guilfoile
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Knopf
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400078264
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