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Reviewed on September 15, 2005
Just as Virginia Woolf haunts Cunningham's The Hours , Walt Whitman colors the novelist's latest effort. Specimen Days tells three stories, all set in Manhattan from different time periods, linked by characters with the same names and by Whitman's poetry. Whitman himself appears briefly in the 19th-century episode, the most moving and evo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More