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The Signature of All Things: A Novel - Hardcover By Gilbert, Elizabeth - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780670024858
- Book Title
- Signature of All Things : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 27.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic, and City of Girls In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction--into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist--but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe--from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who--born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution--bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670024856
ISBN-13
9780670024858
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160035170
Product Key Features
Book Title
Signature of All Things : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Contemporary Women, Family Life, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
27.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3557.I3415s54 2013
Reviews
Praise for The Signature of All Things "Gilbert's sweeping saga of Henry Whittaker and his daughter Alma offers an allegory for the great, rampant heart of the 19th century…Characters leap into life, visible and vibrant… A brilliant exercise of intellect and imagination." - Kirkus Reviews "Gilbert has returned to fiction, and clearly she's reveling in all its pleasures and possibilities…[an] unhurried, sympathetic, intelligent novel by an author confident in her material and her form." - Publishers Weekly "Rich, highly satisfying…Gilbert, in supreme command of her material, effortlessly invokes the questing spirit of the nineteenth century…Beautifully written and imbued with a reverence for science and learning, this is a must-read." - ALA Booklist, Praise for The Signature of All Things "Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. The Signature of All Things is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds." -Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review "Unlike anything Gilbert has ever written. The book's heroine is Alma Whittaker, the brilliant, restless daughter of an imperious botanical explorer. Its prose has the elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns-the intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for fulfillment, the dubious rise of the pharmaceutical industry-are essentially modern…Gilbert has returned to her roots in fiction and written the sort of rip-roaring tale that would have been considered entertainment for the masses 150 years ago." - The New York Times Magazine "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's 20-year career: a deeply researched and vividly rendered historical novel about a 19th century female botanist." - The Wall Street Journal "Gilbert has mulled, from the confines of her desk, the correlations of nature, the principle that connects a grain of sand to a galaxy, to create a character who does the same who makes the study of existence her life's purpose. And in doing so, she has written the novel of a lifetime." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Gilbert's sweeping saga of Henry Whittaker and his daughter Alma offers an allegory for the great, rampant heart of the 19th century…Characters leap into life, visible and vibrant… A brilliant exercise of intellect and imagination." - Kirkus Reviews "Gilbert has returned to fiction, and clearly she's reveling in all its pleasures and possibilities…[an] unhurried, sympathetic, intelligent novel by an author confident in her material and her form." - Publishers Weekly "Rich, highly satisfying…Gilbert, in supreme command of her material, effortlessly invokes the questing spirit of the nineteenth century…Beautifully written and imbued with a reverence for science and learning, this is a must-read." - ALA Booklist, Praise for The Signature of All Things "Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. The Signature of All Things is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds." -Barbara Kingsolver, The New York Times Book Review "[A] rip-roaring tale… Its prose has the elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns - the intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for fulfillment, the dubious rise of the pharmaceutical industry - are essentially modern." -Steve Almond, The New York Times Magazine "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's 20-year career: a deeply researched and vividly rendered historical novel about a 19th century female botanist." -Alexandra Alter, The Wall Street Journal "A radiant novel…that rare literary achievement, a big, panoramic novel about life and love…Like Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, Gilbert captures something important about the wider world in The Signature of All Things : a pivotal moment in history when progress defined us in concrete ways." -Marie Arana, The Washington Post "A delightful book…one of the best of the year…Gilbert marries the technical, cultural and spiritual with a warm, frankly funny wit… This kind of storytelling is rare one in which an author can depict the particulars of a moss colony as skillfully as she maps the landscape of the human heart." -Lizzie Skurnick, "All Things Considered," NPR "Gilbert's sumptuous third novel, her first in thirteen years, draws openly on nineteenth-century forebears: Dickens, Eliot, and Henry James…Gilbert's prose is by turns flinty, funny, and incandescent." - The New Yorker "Engrossing… The Signature of All Things is one of those rewardingly fact-packed books that make readers feel bold and smart by osmosis. Alma commits her life to ceaseless study, but reading this vibrant, hot-blooded book about her takes no work at all." -Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Gilbert has mulled, from the confines of her desk, the correlations of nature, the principle that connects a grain of sand to a galaxy, to create a character who does the same who makes the study of existence her life's purpose. And in doing so, she has written the novel of a lifetime." - O, The Oprah Magazine "A fabulous read…Gilbert has returned to fiction with a boisterous historical novel about a 19th-century botanist named Alma Whittaker…Alma's fabulous brain is a hot pot of scientific knowledge, lonely feminist turmoil and erotic longing. All of which makes her an irresistible character to accompany through history and around the world." -Helen Rogan, People "Raucously ingenious… Signature is not just a historical novel that spans two centuries and many geographies…I found unshackled joy on every page…a novel of brave and lovely ideas." -Beth Kephart, The Chicago Tribune, "A rip-roaring tale... unlike anything Gilbert has ever written... Its prose has the elegant sheen of a nineteenth-century epic, but its concerns... are essentially modern." -- The New York Times Magazine "With this novel about a young, nineteenth-century Philadelphia woman who becomes a world-renowned botanist, Gilbert shows herself to be a writer at the height of her powers." -- O, The Oprah Magazine, " Our Favorite Reads of the Year" "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's twenty-year career." -- The Wall Street Journal "Like Victor Hugo or Emile Zola, Gilbert captures something important about the wider world in The Signature of All Things : a pivotal moment in history when progress defined us in concrete ways." -- The Washington Post " A masterly tale of overflowing sensual and scientific enthusiasms in the nineteenth century." -- Time, "Top Ten Fiction Books of the Year" "Raucously ingenious... a novel of brave and lovely ideas... I found unshackled joy on every page." -- The Chicago Tribune "Alma's extraordinary life unspools like a Jane Austen novel... Here Gilbert claims her rightful spot as one of the twenty-first century's best American writers." -- Outside "Gilbert writes so wonderfully it's impossible not to swoon... Alma's drive for personal epiphany feels absolutely contemporary." -- The Boston Globe "A beautifully written, grandly expansive historical novel... Gilbert's writing is so smart and richly drawn that it does what all the best books do: it sweeps you up." --Entertainment Weekly "Dazzling... a big-hearted, sweeping, unforgettable novel... If you don't think science or historical fiction can be bright, funny, and engaging, this novel will quickly prove you wrong." -- The Miami Herald, Praise for The Signature of All Things "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's 20-year career: a deeply researched and vividly rendered historical novel about a 19th century female botanist." - The Wall Street Journal "Gilbert has mulled, from the confines of her desk, the correlations of nature, the principle that connects a grain of sand to a galaxy, to create a character who does the same who makes the study of existence her life's purpose. And in doing so, she has written the novel of a lifetime." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Gilbert's sweeping saga of Henry Whittaker and his daughter Alma offers an allegory for the great, rampant heart of the 19th century…Characters leap into life, visible and vibrant… A brilliant exercise of intellect and imagination." - Kirkus Reviews "Gilbert has returned to fiction, and clearly she's reveling in all its pleasures and possibilities…[an] unhurried, sympathetic, intelligent novel by an author confident in her material and her form." - Publishers Weekly "Rich, highly satisfying…Gilbert, in supreme command of her material, effortlessly invokes the questing spirit of the nineteenth century…Beautifully written and imbued with a reverence for science and learning, this is a must-read." - ALA Booklist, Praise for The Signature of All Things "Unlike anything Gilbert has ever written. The book's heroine is Alma Whittaker, the brilliant, restless daughter of an imperious botanical explorer. Its prose has the elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns-the intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for fulfillment, the dubious rise of the pharmaceutical industry-are essentially modern…Gilbert has returned to her roots in fiction and written the sort of rip-roaring tale that would have been considered entertainment for the masses 150 years ago." - The New York Times Magazine "The most ambitious and purely imaginative work in Gilbert's 20-year career: a deeply researched and vividly rendered historical novel about a 19th century female botanist." - The Wall Street Journal "Gilbert has mulled, from the confines of her desk, the correlations of nature, the principle that connects a grain of sand to a galaxy, to create a character who does the same who makes the study of existence her life's purpose. And in doing so, she has written the novel of a lifetime." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Gilbert's sweeping saga of Henry Whittaker and his daughter Alma offers an allegory for the great, rampant heart of the 19th century…Characters leap into life, visible and vibrant… A brilliant exercise of intellect and imagination." - Kirkus Reviews "Gilbert has returned to fiction, and clearly she's reveling in all its pleasures and possibilities…[an] unhurried, sympathetic, intelligent novel by an author confident in her material and her form." - Publishers Weekly "Rich, highly satisfying…Gilbert, in supreme command of her material, effortlessly invokes the questing spirit of the nineteenth century…Beautifully written and imbued with a reverence for science and learning, this is a must-read." - ALA Booklist
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2013
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