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Light Perpetual: A Novel
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781982174149
- Book Title
- Light Perpetual : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 17.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times , NPR , Slate , Lit Hub , Fresh Air , and more From the critically acclaimed and awardwinning author of Golden Hill , an "extraordinary...symphonic...casually stunning" ( The Wall Street Journal ) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London. Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages--after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel, inspired by real events, lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the lives of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs and disasters; of second chances and redemption. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, Light Perpetual "offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality" ( The New Yorker ) and illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
1982174145
ISBN-13
9781982174149
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050422318
Product Key Features
Book Title
Light Perpetual : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Literary
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
17.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6119.P84l54 2021
Reviews
"Magical...stunning... Thanks to Spufford's narrative wizardry, all five protagonists come to vivid life in this spectacularly moving story." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED review, "Inspired by the 1944 bombing of a Woolworth's that killed 168 people, Spufford . . . imagines how the lives of five children who died in the blast might have turned out if they had lived. The novel revisits each character roughly every 15 years, giving a window into postwar London throughout the decades." -- The New York Times, "15 New Books to Watch For in May", "I was reminded of the death-defying bent of two other recent novels--Kate Atkinson's Life After Life and Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1 -- both of which share with Light Perpetual a kind of radiant goodness, a sense that the world is a better place for having such books within them.... Light Perpetual's brilliance lies in the emotion and drama it wrings from the ordinary--but profoundly meaningful--experiences of its protagonists." -- Financial Times "With bold metaphysical engineering, the Golden Hill author conjures miraculous everyday existence... Perpetual Light is something new and brave. With exceptional care, with a loving shrewdness that's a little Hogarthian, Spufford catches the voices and hopes of five not-dead working-class south Londoners, and the people who change and shape them ." -- The Guardian, "Magical...stunning... Thanks to Spufford's narrative wizardry, all five protagonists come to vivid life in this spectacularly moving story." -- Publishers Weekly , STARRED review "[A] richly imagined mosaic... [T]he characters are complex, engaging, memorable. Spufford does indeed bring them to life. He also brings depth and detail to every vignette, from a boy's view of soccer to hot-lead typesetting, a neo-Nazi concert, or a trip on a double-decker bus... Entertaining and unconventional." -- Kirkus Reviews , STARRED review "Five children die in 1944, but imagined glimpses of their unlived lives generate powerful moments of reflection and redemption... Spufford's second novel swells with the same lively, intimate prose as his celebrated debut, The Golden Hill (2017). But its unconventional framing and larger, more contemporary themes makes it an even stronger book." -- Booklist , STARRED review
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2021-937879
Dewey Decimal
823/.92
Dewey Edition
23
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