Hopeful Monsters (Paperback)
Nicholas Mosley
From Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 12 October 2005
From Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 12 October 2005
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Paperback. Hopeful Monsters, winner of the Whitbread Award, is a tour de force of intellect and eros--one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It is a love story in which a young English physicist and a German-Jewish anthropologist pursue each other across landscapes that range from Hitler's Germany to Los Alamos on the eve of the atomic age. It is also a pyrotechnically accomplished novel of ideas in which communism, psychoanalytic theory, uncertainty, and relativity attain visceral emotional force and help us understand the cataclysms of the twentieth century. — A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test. — Hopeful Monsters received Britain's prestigious Whitbread Award in 1990. — Praising Mosley's ability to distill complex modes of thought, the New York Times called Hopeful Monsters a "virtual encyclopedia of twentieth century thought, in fictional form" — First U.S. edition by Dalkey Archive ('90), most recent paperback by Vintage ('93). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781564782427
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Title: Hopeful Monsters (Paperback)
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Normal, IL
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new
Edition: 1st Edition
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