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Jillian Cantor: Half Life

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Название:
Half Life
Автор:
Jillian Cantor
Издательство:
Harper Perennial
Жанр:
Альтернативная история / Историческая проза / на английском языке
Год:
2021
Город:
New York
Язык:
Английский
ISBN:
978-0-06-296987-3
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The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she'd made a different choice. In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Entwining Marie Curie’s real story with Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian Cantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved—as well as the world at large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small.

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—Ariel Lawhon, author of I Was Anastasia

“ In Another Time is a stunning testament to the power of books, music, and love, and how they can endure, and ultimately prevail, during calamitous times.”

—Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Masterpiece

“ In Another Time is a spellbinding story about the power of love and the strength of the human spirit…. A stunning, transporting novel.”

—Chanel Cleeton, author of Next Year in Havana

“ In Another Time is a beautifully written, utterly romantic story about a love that transcends time. The sort of book you wish could never end.”

— PopSugar

“Cantor elevates love as a powerful force… and shows how music speaks to even the cruelest hearts. [ In Another Time is] a powerful story that exalts the strength of the human spirit.”

— Kirkus Reviews

Praise for The Lost Letter

“A total page-turner.”

— New York Magazine

“[A]t the center of the novel are two beautiful love stories involving two seemingly star-crossed couples, whose love overcomes all obstacles…. Getting it right is an art, and Cantor is an artist. She got me from that first page, and I stayed hooked throughout. It’s not just that Cantor kept me interested—she got me involved emotionally with the story.”

— Jerusalem Post

Praise for Margot

“Inventive…. Cantor’s what-if story combines historical fiction with mounting suspense and romance, but above all, it is an ode to the adoration and competition between sisters.”

— O, the Oprah Magazine

“A convincing, engaging might-have-been. Francophiles will want to dig in.”

— People

“Intriguing… with compelling sensitivity.”

— USA Today

“A page-turner…. A wishful, thought-provoking love story.”

— Bust magazine

“A thoughtful speculation about postwar life.”

— Kansas City Star

“If Huffington Post Books gave a star rating system for books, Margot deserves five bold stars.”

— HuffPost

Praise for The Hours Count

“[A] down-to-the-wire thriller.”

— New York Times Book Review

“We kind of love historical novels, and Cantor’s is quickly climbing to the top of our all-time faves list…. You won’t be able to put it down.”

— Glamour

“Cantor mixes fact with fiction to create a moving portrait of two of the most vilified figures in modern history.”

— Cosmopolitan

Also by Jillian Cantor

In Another Time

The Lost Letter

The Hours Count

Margot

Searching for Sky

The Transformation of Things

The Life of Glass

The September Sisters

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This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

HALF LIFE. Copyright © 2021 by Jillian Cantor. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Digital Edition MARCH 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-296989-7

Version 01302021

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-296988-0 (pbk.)

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-296987-3 (library edition)

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