{"product_id":"light-perpetual-paperback-1","title":"Light Perpetual - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Spufford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, an \"extraordinary...symphonic...casually stunning\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLunchtime 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIngenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, \u003ci\u003eLight Perpetual\u003c\/i\u003e \"offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) and illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis Spufford began as the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, \u003ci\u003eI May Be Some Time\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Writers Guild Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Child That Books Built\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBackroom Boys\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \u003ci\u003eUnapologetic\u003c\/i\u003e. But with \u003ci\u003eRed Plenty \u003c\/i\u003ein 2012 he switched to the novel. \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill \u003c\/i\u003ewon multiple literary prizes on both sides of the Atlantic; \u003ci\u003eLight Perpetual \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Booker Prize; and \u003ci\u003eCahokia Jazz \u003c\/i\u003ewas longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In England, he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43681507246169,"sku":"9781982174156","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0736\/6465\/9545\/files\/fGtnacWt5J9781982174156.webp?v=1784274697","url":"https:\/\/warrenssanctuaryofthemind.myshopify.com\/fr\/products\/light-perpetual-paperback-1","provider":"Warren's sanctuary of the mind","version":"1.0","type":"link"}