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Evidence of Things Unseen
Marianne Wiggins
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Description for Evidence of Things Unseen
paperback. A beautiful story of an American couple and their adopted son, and how a very innocent knowledge and fascination of 'things that glow' leads to a loss of faith and their lives being ripped apart. Num Pages: 400 pages, Step back cover. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 365.
This poetic historical novel, set between the world wars, tells the story of an American couple and their adopted son, Lightfoot. Fos, a chemist intrigued with constellations, bioluminescence and x-rays, returns from the war in France and falls in love with Opal, the daughter of a glassblower on the Outer Banks of N.C. They move to Knoxville, where Fos and an army buddy have a photography studio, and travel to summer fairs with Fos's x-ray machine. When Opal inherits a farm on the Clinch River, they move again, and live happily with Lightfoot, who had been abandoned, until the property ... Read more
This poetic historical novel, set between the world wars, tells the story of an American couple and their adopted son, Lightfoot. Fos, a chemist intrigued with constellations, bioluminescence and x-rays, returns from the war in France and falls in love with Opal, the daughter of a glassblower on the Outer Banks of N.C. They move to Knoxville, where Fos and an army buddy have a photography studio, and travel to summer fairs with Fos's x-ray machine. When Opal inherits a farm on the Clinch River, they move again, and live happily with Lightfoot, who had been abandoned, until the property ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780743258098
SKU
V9780743258098
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Marianne Wiggins
Marianne Wiggins is the author of eight novels, including John Dollar and Evidence of Things Unseen, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. She has won a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Heidinger Kafka Prize, and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She lives in Venice, California.
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