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A mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous intellectual envy, Properties of Light carries the reader into the very heart of a physics problem so huge and perplexing it thwarted even Einstein: the nature of light. Samuel Mallach is a brilliant theoretician unhinged by the professional glory he feels has been stolen from him; Dana is his intriguing and gifted daughter, whose desperate devotion to her father contributes to the tragic undoing of her lover, Justin Childs, her father's protege. All three are physicists, working together to solve some of the deepest problems presented by quantum mechanics, problems so fundamental that they challenge the meaning of the "real world" and the nature of time. But Properties of Light is above all a story spun out of dangerous obsessions -- not only erotic passion, long the cherished domain of literature but also passion of the mind.
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In lyrical passages of startling beauty, a turbulent story of light and darkness unfolds, set against a fascinating background of some of the most vexing questions posed by contemporary physics. Strikingly original, stylistically daring, Properties of Light is the work of a major American writer at the height of her powers.
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