Louisa Hall
1) Speak
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Puritan woman travels to the New World with her unwanted new husband. Alan Turing, the renowned mathematician and code breaker, writes letters to his best friend's mother. A Jewish refugee and professor of computer science struggles to reconnect with his increasingly detached wife. An isolated and traumatized young girl exchanges messages with an intelligent software program. A former Silicon Valley Wunderkind is imprisoned for creating illegal...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer-- father of the atomic bomb-- as told by seven fictional characters. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction. Soon, however, the novelist's own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as her increasing awareness of larger threats from climate change to pandemic, force her to give up on the book and turn instead to writing a contemporary Frankenstein, based on the story of an...
