e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Barrett, Andrea.
Subjects
Science -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Barrett, Andrea.
by title:
Archangel : fiction ...
by call number:
FICTION BAR
Search the Web
Barrett, Andrea.
Science -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
MARC Display
Archangel
:
fiction
/ by Andrea Barrett.
by
Barrett, Andrea.
W.W. Norton & Company, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION
BAR
Subjects
Science -- Social aspects --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780393240009
0393240002
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
238 p. ; 22 cm
Contents:
The investigators (1908) -- The ether of space (1920) -- The island (1873) -- The particles (1939) --
Archangel
(1919).
Summary:
"During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans--among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to
Archangel
, Russia, in 1919--from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war."--Publisher description.
Genre:
Short stories.
Historical
fiction
.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Captain William Spry Public Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION BAR
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.