To Sail Beyond the Sunset: The Life and Loves of Maureen Johnson (Being the Memoirs of a Somewhat Irregular Lady)

Product Description [This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] Heinlein fans rejoice, for the science fiction master's most beloved characters here gather once more. 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 fans 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. So begins Robert A. Heinlein's To Sail beyond the Sunset. Filled with the master's most beloved characters, this compelling work broadens and enriches his epic vision of time and space, life and death, love and desire. It is also an autobiographical masterpiece--and a wondrous return to the alternate universes that all Heinlein fans have come to know and love. Review ''Exuberant and spirited . . . unquestionably one of the major, defining works of Robert A. Heinlein's long and successful career.'' --San Jose Mercury News''A tour de force . . . In a strange and moving way, To Sail beyond the Sunset may be the finest work in the dean's lengthy career!'' --Kansas City Star''Absorbing and involving!'' -- Kirkus Reviews ''A family reunion for Heinlein's characters . . . a well-attended gathering.'' --Houston Post About the Author ROBERT ANSON HEINLEIN (1907-1988) was born in Missouri. He served five years in the US Navy, then attended graduate classes in mathematics and physics at UCLA, took a variety of jobs, and owned a silver mine before beginning to write science fiction in 1939. His novels have won the Hugo Award, and in 1975 he received the first Grand Master Award for lifetime achievement.