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CHANGING LIGHT: A NOVEL By Nora Gallagher - Hardcove Signed Autographed
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Pantheon
- ISBN-10
- 0375424512
- ISBN
- 9780375424519
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375424512
ISBN-13
9780375424519
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54356808
Product Key Features
Book Title
Changing Light
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Romance / Historical / General, Historical
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-020134
Reviews
"The moral power of Nora Gallagher's voice, so evident in her essays, resounds through her first novel. This is a book that deals wisely with many thingslove, work, creativity, even physics. But it's about simplicity in complex situationsi.e., about the lives that all of us lead in the modern age." -Bill McKibben "Changing Lightis a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in '45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein's physics." -Peter Behrens "Once again, Nora Gallagher has written, with compassion and grace, about the things that matter.Changing Lightis a thoroughly imagined, spiritually courageous glimpse into a moment in time when good and evil might have been one and the same. By turns thriller, love story, and historical mystery, Gallagher turns out to be every bit as talented a novelist as she is a writer of gorgeous non-fiction." -Sue Halpern "An incredibly beautiful story with echoes of Ondaatje and McEwan. Haunting and unforgettable, this is a smashing fiction debut from one of our most thoughtful writers." -Martha Sherrill "Changing Lightis a remarkable love story, told against the backdrop of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the final innocent days of the world before the atom bomb. Nora Gallagher has effortlessly moved into the world of fiction, bringing her understanding of the spiritual life to her characters, and revealing the importance of faith, not just in religion, but between people, and among the inner workings of science and art." -Hannah Tinti, Author ofAnimal Crackers "This is a spare, beautifully crafted story about people trying to sort right from wrong under unforgiving circumstances. When good and evil partake of each other, when knowledge alone cannot separate the two, and when time has run out, then moral certainty becomes impossible. Yet the characters of this story, like all of us at one time or another, must somehow choose and live with the consequences. Nora Gallagher is no stranger to these themes; in her non-fiction work, she has already led us beyond the seen and the known to where feeling guides us. Here she does it in fiction, and she has given us a jewel of a novel." -Mark Salzman From the Hardcover edition., "The moral power of Nora Gallagher's voice, so evident in her essays, resounds through her first novel. This is a book that deals wisely with many things-love, work, creativity, even physics. But it's about simplicity in complex situations-i.e., about the lives that all of us lead in the modern age." --Bill McKibben ""Changing Light" is a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in '45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein's physics." --Peter Behrens "Once again, Nora Gallagher has written, with compassion and grace, about the things that matter. "Changing Light "is a thoroughly imagined, spiritually courageous glimpse into a moment in time when good and evil might have been one and the same. By turns thriller, love story, and historical mystery, Gallagher turns out to be every bit as talented a novelist as she is a writer of gorgeous non-fiction." --Sue Halpern "An incredibly beautiful story with echoes of Ondaatje and McEwan. Haunting and unforgettable, this is a smashing fiction debut from one of our most thoughtful writers." --Martha Sherrill ""Changing Light "is a remarkable love story, told against the backdrop of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the final innocent days of the world before the atom bomb. Nora Gallagher has effortlessly moved into the world of fiction, bringing her understanding of the spiritual life to her characters, and revealing the importance of faith, not just in religion, but between people, and among the inner workings of science and art." --Hannah Tinti, Author of "Animal Crackers" "This is a spare, beautifully crafted story about people trying to sort right from wrong under unforgiving circumstances. When good and evil partake of each other, when knowledge alone cannot separate the two, and when time has run out, then moral certainty becomes impossible. Yet the characters of this story, like all of us at one time or another, must somehow choose and live with the consequences. Nora Gallagher is no stranger to these themes; in her non-fiction work, she has already led us beyond the seen and the known to where feeling guides us. Here she does it in fiction, and she has given us a jewel of a novel." --Mark Salzman ""Changing Light" is a lyrical and passionate novel that takes on some of the largest matters of our day with no loss to its intimacy. Conviction that writing matters the way life matters is Gallagher's hallmark, and this reader is her grateful beneficiary." --Thomas McGuane "An elegiac and tenderly-written love story between a stranger and an artist on a high New Mexico mesa under the looming cloud of an atomic bomb, secret pasts, and hidden passions." --Gretel Ehrlich "At last, a novel about something. Nora Gallagher captures with dazzling beauty the lives of a woman and a man caught in the grip of history and our country's shadowed past. I held my breath reading it." --Annie Dillard, "The moral power of Nora Gallagher's voice, so evident in her essays, resounds through her first novel. This is a book that deals wisely with many thingslove, work, creativity, even physics. But it's about simplicity in complex situationsi.e., about the lives that all of us lead in the modern age." -Bill McKibben "Changing Lightis a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in '45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein's physics." -Peter Behrens "Once again, Nora Gallagher has written, with compassion and grace, about the things that matter.Changing Lightis a thoroughly imagined, spiritually courageous glimpse into a moment in time when good and evil might have been one and the same. By turns thriller, love story, and historical mystery, Gallagher turns out to be every bit as talented a novelist as she is a writer of gorgeous non-fiction." -Sue Halpern, " The moral power of Nora Gallagher's voice, so evident in her essays, resounds through her first novel. This is a book that deals wisely with many things- love, work, creativity, even physics. But it's about simplicity in complex situations- i.e., about the lives that all of us lead in the modern age." -- Bill McKibben " "Changing Light" is a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in ' 45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein's physics." -- Peter Behrens " Once again, Nora Gallagher has written, with compassion and grace, about the things that matter. "Changing Light "is a thoroughly imagined, spiritually courageous glimpse into a moment in time when good and evil might have been one and the same. By turns thriller, love story, and historical mystery, Gallagher turns out to be every bit as talented a novelist as she is a writer of gorgeous non-fiction." -- Sue Halpern " An incredibly beautiful story with echoes of Ondaatje and McEwan. Haunting and unforgettable, this is a smashing fiction debut from one of our most thoughtful writers." -- Martha Sherrill " "Changing Light "is a remarkable love story, told against the backdrop of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the final innocent days of the world before the atom bomb. Nora Gallagher has effortlessly moved into theworld of fiction, bringing her understanding of the spiritual life to her characters, and revealing the importance of faith, not just in religion, but between people, and among the inner workings of science and art." -- Hannah Tinti, Author of "Animal Crackers" " This is a spare, beautifully crafted story about people trying to sort right from wrong under unforgiving circumstances. When good and evil partake of each other, when knowledge alone cannot separate the two, and when time has run out, then moral certainty becomes impossible. Yet the characters of this story, like all of us at one time or another, must somehow choose and live with the consequences. Nora Gallagher is no stranger to these themes; in her non-fiction work, she has already led us beyond the seen and the known to where feeling guides us. Here she does it in fiction, and she has given us a jewel of a novel." -- Mark Salzman " "Changing Light" is a lyrical and passionate novel that takes on some of the largest matters of our day with no loss to its intimacy. Conviction that writing matters the way life matters is Gallagher's hallmark, and this reader is her grateful beneficiary." -- Thomas McGuane " An elegiac and tenderly-written love story between a stranger and an artist on a high New Mexico mesa under the looming cloud of an atomic bomb, secret pasts, and hidden passions." -- Gretel Ehrlich " At last, a novel about something. Nora Gallagher captures with dazzling beauty the lives of a woman and a man caught in the grip of history and our country's shadowed past. I held my breath reading it." -- Annie Dillard, "The moral power of Nora Gallagher's voice, so evident in her essays, resounds through her first novel. This is a book that deals wisely with many thingslove, work, creativity, even physics. But it's about simplicity in complex situationsi.e., about the lives that all of us lead in the modern age." -Bill McKibben "Changing Lightis a love story about desperate people with brains, told quietly and passionately, and stuffed with clear New Mexico light; specifically, the terrible, majestic lights and shadows of Los Alamos in '45, when The Bomb was born. It unfolds in a remote place that was very near the heart of the 20th century, it is as truthful as an old ballad, and nearly as elegant as Einstein's physics." -Peter Behrens "Once again, Nora Gallagher has written, with compassion and grace, about the things that matter.Changing Lightis a thoroughly imagined, spiritually courageous glimpse into a moment in time when good and evil might have been one and the same. By turns thriller, love story, and historical mystery, Gallagher turns out to be every bit as talented a novelist as she is a writer of gorgeous non-fiction." -Sue Halpern "An incredibly beautiful story with echoes of Ondaatje and McEwan. Haunting and unforgettable, this is a smashing fiction debut from one of our most thoughtful writers." -Martha Sherrill "Changing Lightis a remarkable love story, told against the backdrop of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the final innocent days of the world before the atom bomb. Nora Gallagher has effortlessly moved into the world of fiction, bringing her understanding of the spiritual life to her characters, and revealing the importance of faith, not just in religion, but between people, and among the inner workings of science and art." -Hannah Tinti, Author ofAnimal Crackers "This is a spare, beautifully crafted story about people trying to sort right from wrong under unforgiving circumstances. When good and evil partake of each other, when knowledge alone cannot separate the two, and when time has run out, then moral certainty becomes impossible. Yet the characters of this story, like all of us at one time or another, must somehow choose and live with the consequences. Nora Gallagher is no stranger to these themes; in her non-fiction work, she has already led us beyond the seen and the known to where feeling guides us. Here she does it in fiction, and she has given us a jewel of a novel." -Mark Salzman "Changing Lightis a lyrical and passionate novel that takes on some of the largest matters of our day with no loss to its intimacy. Conviction that writing matters the way life matters is Gallagher's hallmark, and this reader is her grateful beneficiary." -Thomas McGuane "An elegiac and tenderly-written love story between a stranger and an artist on a high New Mexico mesa under the looming cloud of an atomic bomb, secret pasts, and hidden passions." -Gretel Ehrlich "At last, a novel about something. Nora Gallagher captures with dazzling beauty the lives of a woman and a man caught in the grip of history and our country's shadowed past. I held my breath reading it." -Annie Dillard
Synopsis
Nora Gallagher's elegant debut novel, "Changing Light", is a love story set in Los Alamos during the summer of 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb. During the last summer of the war, in the beautiful New Mexico desert, a man and a woman come together: Eleanor Garrigue, a young painter from New York, and Leo Kavan, a neutron physicist. The story begins when Eleanor finds a delirious man lying by the river near her house. She takes him in and cares for him. In this novel of secrets, we learn before Eleanor does that Leo is AWOL from Los Alamos after witnessing a fatal radiation accident that has forced him to confront the moral implications of his work on the bomb. And we know, too, what Leo does not know: Eleanor is married, and has fled to New Mexico to escape her husband. As Eleanor and Leo slowly reveal themselves to each other, their pasts and the present unfold in tandem, taking us from the heady art world in New York to Einstein's Berlin, from the bomb labs in the English countryside to the hidden city of Los Alamos. Nora Gallagher perfectly evokes the veil of secrecy and tension surrounding the Manhattan Project, the constant hum of fear alongside the remarkable fearlessness of the scientists in the laboratories. As Leo and Eleanor privately struggle with the losses the war has pitched into their lives, the two find unexpected solace in each other. Their story is all the more poignant because it can only flourish in a brief interlude-an interlude of brilliant madness and irrevocable change. As the scientists engage in literally "changinglight, " Leo and Eleanor are connected and changed in unexpected ways by the brutal radiance of the war and their fierce love., The acclaimed author of "Things Seen and Unseen" returns with a thriller-romance set in and around Los Alamos during the crucial summer of 1945, when scientists were literally Rchanging lightS and lives were changing forever., The acclaimed author of Things Seen and Unseen returns with a thriller-romance set in and around Los Alamos during the crucial summer of 1945, when scientists were literally Rchanging lightS and lives were changing forever.
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