The Age of Perpetual Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Perpetual Light write by Josh Weil. This book was released on 2017-09-12. The Age of Perpetual Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Short stories that “situate themselves as natural heirs to such masterpieces as Denis Johnson’s ‘Train Dreams’ and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’” —The New York Times Book Review Beginning at the dawn of the past century, in the early days of electrification, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night, each tale in The Age of Perpetual Light follows characters through different eras in American history: a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp; a 1940 farmers’ uprising against the unfair practices of a power company; a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990s Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite; a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter’s autism during winter’s longest night. From the prize-winning author of The Great Glass Sea, these stories explore themes of progress, the pursuit of knowledge, and humankind’s eternal attempt to decrease the darkness in the world. “A rich, often dazzling collection of short stories linked by themes while ranging widely in style from Babel-like fables to gritty noir and sci-fi . . . engrossing, persuasively detailed, and written with a deep affection for the way language can, in masterful hands, convey us to marvelous new worlds.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “A storyteller of the first order.” —Joshua Ferris, author of the National Book Award finalist Then We Came to the End “A spectacular talent.” —Lauren Groff, New York Times–bestselling author of Fates and Furies
Light Perpetual
Light Perpetual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light Perpetual write by Francis Spufford. This book was released on 2022-04-05. Light Perpetual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
The Properties of Perpetual Light
The Properties of Perpetual Light - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Properties of Perpetual Light write by Julian Aguon. This book was released on 2021-03-29. The Properties of Perpetual Light available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part memoir, part manifesto, The Properties of Perpetual Light is a collection of soulful ruminations about love, loss, struggle, resilience, and power--a coming-of-age story and a call for justice.
The Great Glass Sea
The Great Glass Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Glass Sea write by Josh Weil. This book was released on 2014. The Great Glass Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Twin brothers Yarik and Dima find themselves representing opposing ideologies in a dystopian world where they labor together in a sea of glass lit by space mirrors that keep the citizens of Petroplavilsk in perpetual daylight.
The Perpetual Now
The Perpetual Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Perpetual Now write by Michael D. Lemonick. This book was released on 2017-02-07. The Perpetual Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of a shattering illness, Lonni Sue Johnson lives in a "perpetual now," where she has almost no memories of the past and a nearly complete inability to form new ones. The Perpetual Now is the moving story of this exceptional woman, and the groundbreaking revelations about memory, learning, and consciousness her unique case has uncovered. Lonni Sue Johnson was a renowned artist who regularly produced covers for The New Yorker, a gifted musician, a skilled amateur pilot, and a joyful presence to all who knew her. But in late 2007, she contracted encephalitis. The disease burned through her hippocampus like wildfire, leaving her severely amnesic, living in a present that rarely progresses beyond ten to fifteen minutes. Remarkably, she still retains much of the intellect and artistic skills from her previous life, but it's not at all clear how closely her consciousness resembles yours or mine. As such, Lonni Sue's story has become part of a much larger scientific narrative—one that is currently challenging traditional wisdom about how human memory and awareness are stored in the brain. In this probing, compassionate, and illuminating book, award-winning science journalist Michael D. Lemonick uses the unique drama of Lonni Sue Johnson's day-to-day life to give us a nuanced and intimate understanding of the science that lies at the very heart of human nature.
