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Two moons : a novel / Thomas Mallon.
LIBRA - Special PS3563.A43157 T96 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallon, Thomas, 1951-
- Series:
- Harvest book
- A Harvest book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States Naval Observatory--Fiction.
- United States Naval Observatory.
- Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Scientists--Fiction.
- Scientists.
- Widows--Fiction.
- Widows.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Love stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 303 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Harvest edition.
- Place of Publication:
- San Diego : Harcourt, 2001.
- Summary:
- At the Naval Observatory, astronomers gazing up at the stars discover the two moons of Mars, but they come down with malaria and must contend with Reconstruction politics. Readers see this through the eyes of Cynthia May, a witty, freethinking war widow. Mallon refracts questions of war, woman's rights, and the ordering of the cosmos through the prism of his heroine's mind, mixing keen social commentary with sheer entertainment.
- ISBN:
- 0156010828
- 9780156010825
- OCLC:
- 45058794
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