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To Sail Beyond the Sunset

Name: To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Rating: 3.88 (11663 reviews)
Author: Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein July 1, 1987

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Bestselling author Robert A. Heinlein’s autobiographical masterpiece–a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love.

Maureen Johnson, the somewhat irregular mother of Lazarus Long, wakes up in bed with a man and a cat. The cat is Pixel, well-known to readers of the New York Times bestseller The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. The man is a stranger to her, and besides that, he is dead…

Filled with the master’s most beloved characters, To Sail Beyond the Sunset broadens and enriches Heinlein’s epic visions of time and space, life and death, love and desire…

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