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Good Benito - Softcover

Lightman, Alan

 
9780446671606: Good Benito

Synopsis

Bennett "Benito" Lang is a lonely and confused young boy who finds solace in the ordered and rigorous laws of mathematics and physics. But as an adult, when he most needs the irrefutable order and precision of science itself, Benito will learn that, despite its expansive beauty and power, it is no match for the unfathomable desires and pains of the human heart. Lightman is the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams.

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Book Description

An exquisitely written, original novel about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience, by the author of EINSTEIN'S DREAMS.

About the Author

Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1948, and was educated at Princeton and the California Institute of Technology. He has written for Granta, Harper's, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. His highly acclaimed novel GOOD BENITO, about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience, is also availiable from Sceptre. He is now professor of science and writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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