The blind light: a novel

✍ Scribed by Stuart Evers

• Book ID: 100668389
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 262 KB
• Edition: First American edition (US)
• Category: Fiction
• City: Great Britain.
• ISBN: 1324006269

✦ Synopsis

A multigenerational story about two families bound together by the tides of history and the bittersweet complexity of love.

England, 1959: two young soldiers--Drummond and Carter--form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doom Town," a training center that recreates the aftermath of atomic warfare. The experience will haunt them the rest of their lives. Years later, Carter, now a high-ranking government official, offers working-class Drummond a way to protect himself and his wife, Gwen, should a nuclear strike occur. Their pact, kept secret, will have devastating consequences for the families they so wish to shield.

The Blind Light is a grand, ambitious novel that spans decades, from the 1950s to the present. Told from the perspectives of Drum and Gwen, and later their children, Nate and Anneka, the story brilliantly captures the tenderness and envy of long relationships. As the families attempt to reform themselves, the pressures of...

✦ Subjects

Great Britain