From the jacket:
With Properties of
Light, the award-winning author of The Mind-Body Problem gives us
“one of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of
the imagination and intellect... achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing
on every page” (Charles Johnson). This mesmerizing tale of consuming love
and murderous professional envy carries the reader into the very heart of a
physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of
light. Caught in the entanglements of erotic and intellectual passion, three
physicists grapple with mysteries of science as well as mysteries of the heart
with consequences not even their finely honed intellects can predict.
“Luminous, incendiary... Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace
and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable
cosmologies” (New York Times Book Review).
“A mordant marvel.”
—John Leonard, Harper’s
“Luminous, incendiary... Properties of Light is a novel of cool grace and dark lyricism, lit by the imaginative fire of physics and its improbable cosmologies.”
—New York Times Book Review
”[Properties of Light] is a passionate love story rendered with dazzling intelligence... both an intricate moral tale and a meditation on the unsolvable mysteries of the human spirit.”
—Maureen Howard.”
“A marvelous book, full of light of its own. It is at once the most logical and most ecstatic fiction of our age.”
—Andrew Solomon
“One of the magnificent performances in contemporary fiction, a fusion of the imagination and intellect... achingly beautiful, moving, and intriguing on every page”
—Charles Johnson
