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02698aam a22004458i 4500 001 4B372D4E070211E39CD5BBC0DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200118010508 008 130522s2013 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2013016958 020 $a 0393240002 (hardcover) : 020 $a 9780393240009 (hardcover) : 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d UPZ $d MLN $d SKYRV $d SILO 050 00 $a PS3552.A7327 082 00 $a 813/.54 100 1 $a Barrett, Andrea. 245 10 $a Archangel : $b fiction / $c by Andrea Barrett. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c ©2013. 300 $a 238 pages ; $c 22 cm. 505 0 $a The investigators (1908) -- The ether of space (1920) -- The island (1873) -- The particles (1939) -- Archangel (1919). 520 $a During the summer of 1908, twelve-year-old Constantine Boyd is witness to an explosion of home-spun investigation--from experiments with cave-dwelling fish without eyes to scientifically bred crops to motorized bicycles and the flight of an early aeroplane. In 1920, a popular science writer and young widow tries, immediately after the bloodbath of the First World War, to explain the new theory of relativity to an audience (herself included) desperate to believe in an "ether of space" housing spirits of the dead. Half a century earlier, in 1873, a famous biologist struggles to maintain his sense of the hierarchies of nature as Darwin's new theory of evolution threatens to make him ridiculous in the eyes of a precocious student. The twentieth-century realms of science and war collide in the last two stories, as developments in genetics and X-ray technology that had once held so much promise fail to protect humans--among them, a young American soldier, Constantine Boyd, sent to Archangel, Russia, in 1919--from the failures of governments and from the brutality of war.--Publisher description. 650 0 $a Science $x History $x History $y 19th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Science $x History $x History $y 20th century $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Short stories. 650 0 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 12 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240402012612.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909031055.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006072445.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180118015850.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418095052.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826074751.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926022108.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20150409080621.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20140412014934.0 952 $l VQPC384 $d 20131003010941.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20130904014501.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20130904011053.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4B372D4E070211E39CD5BBC0DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search