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A carregar... Archangel: Fiction (2013)por Andrea Barrett
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Five connected stories set in the late 18th-early 19th centuries, each about a character who is discovering new ways to think about science and the investigation of the natural world. Wonderful. ( ) Beautifully written though some of her research shows a bit too much - a barrage of scientific details don't help with the pace. But I liked the title story set in Russia just after WWI and The Island, a story about Louis Agassiz and the precursor to the school at Wood's Hole. I would give those an extra half star. A collection of five stories by Andrea Barrett. Like those in her other collections, these all take natural history/science as their focal point, and are placed at a wide variety of time periods and settings (with some threads that carry through). While I didn't find this collection quite as good as some of her earlier volumes, each story is still beautifully written and the volume as a whole works very well. There are always good stories in a Barrett collection, although this one isn't, in my opinion, nearly as engaging as Servants of the Map or Voyage of the Narwhal. I do love how Barrett incorporates science (& women as scientists/ citizen scientists) into her stories. My favorites here are The Island & The Ether of Space. I liked this, for the most part, with the caveat that I'm a sucker for Enlightenment-era science stories. There were only five to the whole book, and some worked better than others—I felt her research peeking through fairly regularly, and some of the narrative seemed like more of an armature to hang the science on than anything propelling the story, except in a very abstract way. Still, her writing is lovely, and it all managed to hang together pretty well. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans--among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919--from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war.--Publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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