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Sto caricando le informazioni... Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel (edizione 2004)di Marianne Wiggins (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. I have to warn that it is not an easy read both in style and in content. ( ) This nearly 400-page book mesmerized me from the breathtaking opening paragraph. The story of Fos and Opal grows from their innate curiosity in the world around them. Fos, an amateur scientist, thrives on luminescence in all its forms. Opal loves learning and longs to build a future with Fos. Their love intensifies through tragedy and hardship in the years between the first World War and the second as the world of science becomes weaponized. The story feels leisurely at first, luring the reader deep inside with lyrical prose and depth of character, then it delivers a gut punch. Then another. And another. Nevermind the punctuation-free dialogue that feels like the author or publisher is trying to look artsy, like an overpriced canvas with a single splotch of color on it. The worse distraction is the eyelash-thin footnote size font that strains the eye. The story was worth the extra effort it took to read it. Note to self: Buy the next Wiggins book in ebook to increase the font size or as an audio book. It would sound like poetry. This was really quite a different read for me. I found it an amazing book. The writing was sort of a beautiful flow of poetic writing. I did find that at times I sort of struggled with reading it. The book covered historical events which I love reading and the great wars. There was so much going on in the story. Would say this book covers history death and love. I would say this would make a good discussion book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
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Historical Fiction.
HTML:This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light. Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratoryâ??Site X in the government's race to build the bomb. And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns. Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and beli Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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