Pearl
by Mary Gordon
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1400078075
- ISBN 13
- 9781400078073
- Seller
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Olive Hill, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria was once a student radical and still proudly lives by her beliefs, gentle, book-loving Pearl has never been interested in politics–nor in the Catholicism her mother rejected years before. What, then, is driving her to martyr herself? Shaken by this mystery, Maria and her childhood friend (and Pearl's surrogate father), Joseph Kasperman, both rush to Pearl's side. As Mary Gordon tells the story of the bonds among them, shetakes us deep into the labyrinths of maternal love, religious faith, and Ireland's tragic history. Pearl is a grand and emotionally daring novel of ideas, told with the tension of a thriller.
Synopsis
Gregory Chaitin is widely known for his work on metamathematics and for his discovery of the celebrated Omega number, which proved the fundamental unknowability of math. He is the author of many books on mathematics, including Meta Math! The Quest for Omega . This is his first book on biology. Chaitin was for many years at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York. The research described in this book was carried out at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where Chaitin is now a professor. An Argentine-American, he is an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires and has an honorary doctorate from the National University of Cordoba, the oldest university in Argentina.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Melissa E Anderson (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 974588
- Title
- Pearl
- Author
- Mary Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1400078075
- ISBN 13
- 9781400078073
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Place of Publication
- Westminister, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- April 11, 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Thriller; FICTION / Horror;
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- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.