The Resource Half life : a novel, Jillian Cantor
Half life : a novel, Jillian Cantor
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The item Half life : a novel, Jillian Cantor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library.
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- Summary
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- A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices
- "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."--Back cover
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 381, 12 pages
- Note
- Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More...(pages 1-12)
- Isbn
- 9780062969880
- Label
- Half life : a novel
- Title
- Half life
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Jillian Cantor
- Subject
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- Biographical fiction
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Fiction
- Equality -- Fiction
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Novels
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Poland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women chemists -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- A reimagining of the life of Marie Curie is told through two parallel timelines, including one that reflects her real-world achievements and another that explores how the world might be different had she made other choices
- "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."--Back cover
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cantor, Jillian
- Dewey number
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- 813/.6
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3603.A587
- LC item number
- H35 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Curie, Marie
- Women chemists
- Fate and fatalism
- Equality
- Man-woman relationships
- Poland
- Paris (France)
- Label
- Half life : a novel, Jillian Cantor
- Note
- Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More...(pages 1-12)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 381, 12 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062969880
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1241098918
- Label
- Half life : a novel, Jillian Cantor
- Note
- Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More...(pages 1-12)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 381, 12 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062969880
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)on1241098918
Subject
- Biographical fiction
- Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Fiction
- Equality -- Fiction
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Novels
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
- Poland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Women chemists -- Fiction
- Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Alternative histories (Fiction)
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