Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, Slate, Lit Hub, Fresh Air, and more From the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Golden Hill, an extraordinary...symphonic...casually stunning (The Wall Street Journal) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages--after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel, inspired by real events, lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the lives of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs and disasters; of second chances and redemption. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, Light Perpetual offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality (The New Yorker) and illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life.

I May Be Some Time (Picador) is also written by Francis Spufford. He was nominated Young Writer of the Year by the Sunday Times (London) and received the Somerset Maugham and Writers' Guild Awards in 1997. He is based in London.

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ISBN 13	9781982174156
ISBN 10	1982174153
Title	Light Perpetual
Author	Francis Spufford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Year published	2022-04-05
Number of pages	336
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