Reading old books of science experiments for children, it's easy to become nostalgic for the days when you could buy jugs of sulfur and mercury at...
Continue »
This is a beautifully crafted work of historical fiction. It describes what happens to a village's inhabitants when their world is turned upside down by a natural catastrophhe, and thus touches us in our modern world where events beyond our control can affect us as well.
Was this comment helpful? | Yes | No
(18 of 31 readers found this comment helpful)
Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.
Don't Miss
Customer Comments
cerulean_blue2 has commented on (1) product.
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
cerulean_blue2, August 19, 2006
This is a beautifully crafted work of historical fiction. It describes what happens to a village's inhabitants when their world is turned upside down by a natural catastrophhe, and thus touches us in our modern world where events beyond our control can affect us as well.(18 of 31 readers found this comment helpful)