Light perpetual: a novel
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Published:
New York : Scribner, 2021.
Format:
Book
Edition:
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc:
323 pages ; 24 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781982174149, 1982174145, 9781982174149, 1982174145
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Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages--after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the life arcs of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs, disasters; of second chances and redemption.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Spufford, F. (2021). Light perpetual: a novel. First Scribner hardcover edition. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Spufford, Francis, 1964-. 2021. Light Perpetual: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Spufford, Francis, 1964-, Light Perpetual: A Novel. Scribner, 2021.
MLA Citation (style guide)Spufford, Francis. Light Perpetual: A Novel. First Scribner hardcover edition. Scribner, 2021.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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