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The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Description for The Signature of All Things
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 194 x 37. Weight in Grams: 318.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE
From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right. But as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction – into the realm of the spiritual, the divine and the magical.
The Signature of All Things soars across the globe of the nineteenth century, from London and Peru, to Philadelphia, Tahiti and beyond. Peopled with extraordinary characters along the way, most of all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408850046
SKU
V9781408850046
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
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99-99
About Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is the acclaimed author of five books of fiction and non-fiction. She is most well known for her 2006 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. Her short story collection Pilgrims was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, her novel Stern Men was a New York Times Notable Book and The Last American Man was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent work, Committed, was a Number One New York Times bestseller. Elizabeth Gilbert lives in New Jersey. www.elizabethgilbert.com Find Elizabeth Gilbert on Facebook and follow her on Twitter @GilbertLiz
Reviews for The Signature of All Things
Unlike anything else she has ever written ... Its prose has the elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns – the intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for fulfilment – are especially modern
Steve Almond
International Herald Tribune
The story of Alma Whittaker’s journey of discovery has irresistible momentum
Helen Dunmore
The Times
Ms Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act ... A bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds
Barbara Kingsolver
New York Times
Charming and compelling ... A big novel in all senses – extensively researched, compellingly readable and with a powerful charm that will surely propel it towards the bestseller lists
Jane Shilling
Daily Telegraph
Gilbert has written the novel of a lifetime
O, The Oprah Magazine
Sumptuous ... Gilbert's prose is by turns flinty, funny, and incandescent
New Yorker
Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years ... a bejewelled, dazzling novel
Elizabeth Day
Observer
Readers prepared to enter Gilbert Time will be rewarded: she is an unflaggingly curious writer, prone to delightful touches ... Gilbert's period interests seem boundless - she explores everything from self-sacrifice, to homosexuality, Darwinism and Victorian pornography ... This is a novel to be chewed over, slowly
Lucy Atkins
Sunday Times
A botanical odyssey through the nineteenth century, global in ambition, revelling in the period's insatiable curiosity about the world ... a tall tale, told with verve and wit
Guardian
Filled with dazzling storytelling
Susie Boyt
Financial Times
Gilbert writes superbly well
Wendy Holden
Daily Mail
An intricate, beautifully written historical novel ... A passionate paean to the 19th-century women of science who strove for achievement against the odds
Anita Sethi
Metro
Gilbert’s observations, of both characters and locations, make this an unexpected joy and in Alma she has created a truly unforgettable heroine
Anita Chaudhuri
Irish Examiner
Astute and funny ... comes with generous helpings of optimism and romance. Cynics need not apply
Irish Sunday Mirror
Ambitious, boldly imagined and packed with authenticating detail, it engages very boldly with the interaction of art and science
Andrew Motion, Guardian
Gilbert reminds readers she can do, and undo, narratives through impeccably observed and original stories
Independent
Gilbert shows herself to be a writer at the height of her powers
O Magazine
Magnificent ... I was just a few pages into the book when I felt myself relax, aware that I was in the safe hands of a master story-teller
Anna Carey
The Irish Times
My own 500-pager of choice? Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things ... just read it ... Hugely enjoyable
Viv Groskop
Observer Books of the Year
I can’t stop thinking about The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hillary Clinton, International New York Times
This is a book to be chewed over, slowly
Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
Every now and then, a book comes along that completely sweeps us up in the life of its heroine. The Signature of All Things is one of those books … Its unique premise, imaginable characters, witty prose and galloping pace make it the story to immerse yourself in this summer
Stylist
Steve Almond
International Herald Tribune
The story of Alma Whittaker’s journey of discovery has irresistible momentum
Helen Dunmore
The Times
Ms Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act ... A bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds
Barbara Kingsolver
New York Times
Charming and compelling ... A big novel in all senses – extensively researched, compellingly readable and with a powerful charm that will surely propel it towards the bestseller lists
Jane Shilling
Daily Telegraph
Gilbert has written the novel of a lifetime
O, The Oprah Magazine
Sumptuous ... Gilbert's prose is by turns flinty, funny, and incandescent
New Yorker
Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years ... a bejewelled, dazzling novel
Elizabeth Day
Observer
Readers prepared to enter Gilbert Time will be rewarded: she is an unflaggingly curious writer, prone to delightful touches ... Gilbert's period interests seem boundless - she explores everything from self-sacrifice, to homosexuality, Darwinism and Victorian pornography ... This is a novel to be chewed over, slowly
Lucy Atkins
Sunday Times
A botanical odyssey through the nineteenth century, global in ambition, revelling in the period's insatiable curiosity about the world ... a tall tale, told with verve and wit
Guardian
Filled with dazzling storytelling
Susie Boyt
Financial Times
Gilbert writes superbly well
Wendy Holden
Daily Mail
An intricate, beautifully written historical novel ... A passionate paean to the 19th-century women of science who strove for achievement against the odds
Anita Sethi
Metro
Gilbert’s observations, of both characters and locations, make this an unexpected joy and in Alma she has created a truly unforgettable heroine
Anita Chaudhuri
Irish Examiner
Astute and funny ... comes with generous helpings of optimism and romance. Cynics need not apply
Irish Sunday Mirror
Ambitious, boldly imagined and packed with authenticating detail, it engages very boldly with the interaction of art and science
Andrew Motion, Guardian
Gilbert reminds readers she can do, and undo, narratives through impeccably observed and original stories
Independent
Gilbert shows herself to be a writer at the height of her powers
O Magazine
Magnificent ... I was just a few pages into the book when I felt myself relax, aware that I was in the safe hands of a master story-teller
Anna Carey
The Irish Times
My own 500-pager of choice? Elizabeth Gilbert’s The Signature of All Things ... just read it ... Hugely enjoyable
Viv Groskop
Observer Books of the Year
I can’t stop thinking about The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Hillary Clinton, International New York Times
This is a book to be chewed over, slowly
Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
Every now and then, a book comes along that completely sweeps us up in the life of its heroine. The Signature of All Things is one of those books … Its unique premise, imaginable characters, witty prose and galloping pace make it the story to immerse yourself in this summer
Stylist