Changing Light (Record no. 75433)
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
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| LC control number | 2006020134 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780375424519 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)70230596 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Gal |
| Item number | 31 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) | |
| Classification number | Gal |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gallagher, Nora |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Changing Light |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Nora Gallagher |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Pantheon Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2007 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 222 p. |
| Dimensions | 22 cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Nora Gallagher’s elegant debut novel, Changing Light, is a love story set in Los Alamos during the summer of 1945, in the shadow of the creation of the first atomic bomb. During the last summer of the war, in the beautiful New Mexico desert, a man and a woman come together: Eleanor Garrigue, a young painter from New York, and Leo Kavan, a neutron physicist. The story begins when Eleanor finds a delirious man lying by the river near her house. She takes him in and cares for him. In this novel of secrets, we learn before Eleanor does that Leo is AWOL from Los Alamos after witnessing a fatal radiation accident that has forced him to confront the moral implications of his work on the bomb. And we know, too, what Leo does not know: Eleanor is married, and has fled to New Mexico to escape her husband. As Eleanor and Leo slowly reveal themselves to each other, their pasts and the present unfold in tandem, taking us from the heady art world in New York to Einstein’s Berlin, from the bomb labs in the English countryside to the hidden city of Los Alamos. Nora Gallagher perfectly evokes the veil of secrecy and tension surrounding the Manhattan Project, the constant hum of fear alongside the remarkable fearlessness of the scientists in the laboratories. As Leo and Eleanor privately struggle with the losses the war has pitched into their lives, the two find unexpected solace in each other. Their story is all the more poignant because it can only flourish in a brief interlude–an interlude of brilliant madness and irrevocable change. As the scientists engage in literally “changing light,” Leo and Eleanor are connected and changed in unexpected ways by the brutal radiance of the war and their fierce love. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | 91536 |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Manhattan Project (U.S.) |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Scientists |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Women painters |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Atomic bomb |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Los Alamos (N.M.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Southwest Fiction |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | |
| Lost status | Permanent Location | Current Location | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date checked out |
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| Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | Arthur Johnson Memorial Library | 22.00 | 2 | Gal | 91536 | 2016-01-05 | 2015-12-10 |