Two Moons: A NovelPantheon Books, 2000 - 303 страница Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work." It's the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatory's human "computers." A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed the war that has haunted her life. But the fate of their love affair -- and of Hugh's heavenly vision -- may be out of their hands, decided instead by an astrologer and by the actions of a dangerously magnetic politician who wields his power over a Senate convulsed by Reconstruction and a wildly disputed presidential election. Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph. |
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... past eight nights , she had sat in her room working with The Principles of Trigonometry , an almost forgotten prize - book she had carried away from Miss Wilton's School for Young Ladies in Laco- nia , and brought with her to all the ...
... past eight nights , she had sat in her room working with The Principles of Trigonometry , an almost forgotten prize - book she had carried away from Miss Wilton's School for Young Ladies in Laco- nia , and brought with her to all the ...
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... past four days , not to jinx the senator's business by discussing him with anyone but Ra . She and Mrs. May were soon sitting at the consulting table , drink- ing the tea she'd planned on offering the man himself . As the clock ticked ...
... past four days , not to jinx the senator's business by discussing him with anyone but Ra . She and Mrs. May were soon sitting at the consulting table , drink- ing the tea she'd planned on offering the man himself . As the clock ticked ...
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... past her . They were chewing on the latest pieces of gossip to come over from Annapolis : a measles outbreak at the academy ; two new practice ships that had been commissioned ; some experiments a Mr. Michelson - who'd piqued the ...
... past her . They were chewing on the latest pieces of gossip to come over from Annapolis : a measles outbreak at the academy ; two new practice ships that had been commissioned ; some experiments a Mr. Michelson - who'd piqued the ...
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