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Loading... The Wave Theory of Angelsby Alison MacLeod
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is best read in a small number of longs bursts. And it is one that stays with you - I finished it a couple of days ago and have spent that time working out the various strands and thinking through the issues it raises about religion, philosophy and physics, as well as the characters and plot lines. It is a complex book and one I know my mother, for example, wouldn't finish. But readers should stick with it - it is a remarkable read, very clever, quite unique and wonderfully creative. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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France. 1284. The cathedral of St Pierre climbs higher and higher over the town of Beauvais. In the heat of an August night, Christina beekeeper, sister of Marguerite, daughter of the heretic and sculptor Giles of Beauvais struggles to keep a secret.The year is also 2001. We're in Chicago, city of towers and home to Fermilab, the world-renowned physics lab. Here Christina Carver, daughter of rebel physicist, Dr Giles Carver, also keeps a secret even from her sister Maggie.When a bell rings for matins when a telephone rings in the middle of the night Christina will fail to wake and all six lives will change forever. In the days that follow, each will be forced to confront what is real and what is not in a world that is precarious, relative and unrelentingly mysterious.This is a story that unfolds across two far-flung centuries and across two worlds. No library descriptions found. |
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