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Hopeful Monsters

✍ Scribed by Mosley, Nicholas

Book ID
107907667
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
334 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

A sweeping, comprehensive epic, Hopeful Monsters tells the story of the love affair between Max, an English student of physics and biology, and Eleanor, a German Jewess and political radical. Together and apart, Max and Eleanor participate in the great political and intellectual movements which shape the twentieth century, taking them from Cambridge and Berlin to the Spanish Civil War, Russia, the Sahara, and finally to Los Alamos to witness the first nuclear test.

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