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Properties of Light

by Rebecca Goldstein

Properties of Light Cover

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

With Properties of Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us “one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect . . . achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page” (Charles Johnson). This mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict. “Luminous, incendiary . . . Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies” (New York Times Book Review).

Synopsis:

Now in paperback, this grand Gothic novel is about the outer reaches of passion--of the body and of the mind--and about the betrayals that so often breed in that perilous place. "Properties of Light" carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780618154593
Author:
Goldstein, Rebecca
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Location:
Boston
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Physicists
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
November 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
8.24x5.58x.62 in. .56 lbs.

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