Two MoonsKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. febr. 3. - 320 oldal Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work." It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatory's human "computers." A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed the war that has haunted her life. But the fate of their love affair -- and of Hugh's heavenly vision -- may be out of their hands, decided instead by an astrologer and by the actions of a dangerously magnetic politician who wields his power over a Senate convulsed by Reconstruction and a wildly disputed presidential election. Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph. |
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... she picked tosit on, a dozen feet from some clerks eating an early lunch. “You filthy thing,” she hissed, smacking the mosquito onher bare wrist. “Die.” She closed her eyes, determined, before the interview, to compose herself against ...
... she picked tosit on, a dozen feet from some clerks eating an early lunch. “You filthy thing,” she hissed, smacking the mosquito onher bare wrist. “Die.” She closed her eyes, determined, before the interview, to compose herself against ...
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... she could see that shewas right:Charles H. Davis wasnow no more than his portrait, which hung outside the door, draped inblack, the late subject's walrus mustache and rectangular flaps of hair quite immobile and unwelcoming. Inside,she ...
... she could see that shewas right:Charles H. Davis wasnow no more than his portrait, which hung outside the door, draped inblack, the late subject's walrus mustache and rectangular flaps of hair quite immobile and unwelcoming. Inside,she ...
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... she had made ither business to find out what the Observatory position entailed. She decided that, witha week of cramming, she just might escape her desk atInterior. Instead of becoming a typewriter, she would make herself acomputer ...
... she had made ither business to find out what the Observatory position entailed. She decided that, witha week of cramming, she just might escape her desk atInterior. Instead of becoming a typewriter, she would make herself acomputer ...
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... she decided, Mr. Gilworth had a great future. He was ina city that would always require men who can change what they wanton anexpedient dime. Shewas finished, and hoping they'd noticehow she'ddone the wholething in ink, without one ...
... she decided, Mr. Gilworth had a great future. He was ina city that would always require men who can change what they wanton anexpedient dime. Shewas finished, and hoping they'd noticehow she'ddone the wholething in ink, without one ...
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... she was preparing forthe man himself. “Awaywith you, now,” she murmured, kissingthe oldcat and placinghim ina patchof sunon thewindowsill aboveherhand-painted sign: “Madam Costello, Disciple of Mlle. Lenormand, Paris.PLANET READER .”It ...
... she was preparing forthe man himself. “Awaywith you, now,” she murmured, kissingthe oldcat and placinghim ina patchof sunon thewindowsill aboveherhand-painted sign: “Madam Costello, Disciple of Mlle. Lenormand, Paris.PLANET READER .”It ...
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