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Description for Light
Hardcover. "Light" traverses Europe and parts of America, the history of physics and political changes in Central Europe. It is about love and ruin, East and West, friendship and betrayal, the search for certainty and the consequent disillusionment. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 405. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains fine
An elderly Pole sits in a cafe in Krakow. At another table a young man with a ravaged face is drinking wine and reading Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. They begin to talk. All through the night as they go from bar to bar the young man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her. After they part in the pre-dawn light the old man returns to his rooms and ... Read more
An elderly Pole sits in a cafe in Krakow. At another table a young man with a ravaged face is drinking wine and reading Werner Heisenberg's Physics and Philosophy. They begin to talk. All through the night as they go from bar to bar the young man tells the story of the great love of his life, of how in the midst of their rapture the woman inexplicably disappeared, and of how he is now driving across Europe in a desperate attempt to find her. After they part in the pre-dawn light the old man returns to his rooms and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Secker
Condition
Used, Very Good
1st Edition
Yes
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Lodnon, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780436206429
SKU
KSG0027168
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Timothy O´grady
Timothy O'Grady was born in the USA and has lived in Ireland, London and Spain. He is the author (with Kenneth Griffith) of Curious Journey: An Oral History of Ireland's Unfinished Revolution, and the novels Motherland, which won the David Higham award for the best first novel in 1989, and I Could Read the Sky, which won the Encore award ... Read more
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