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The Signature of All Things
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 194 x 37. Weight in Grams: 318.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right. But as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite ... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with an unquenchable sense of wonder by her father, a botanical explorer and the richest man in the New World, Alma is raised in a house of luxury and curiosity. It is not long before she becomes a gifted botanist in her own right. But as she flourishes and her research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408850046
SKU
V9781408850046
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5
About Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is the acclaimed author of five books of fiction and non-fiction. She is most well known for her 2006 bestseller Eat, Pray, Love, which has sold over ten million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Julia Roberts. Her short story collection Pilgrims was nominated for the PEN/Hemingway Award, her novel Stern Men was a New ... Read more
Reviews for The Signature of All Things
Unlike anything else she has ever written ... Its prose has the elegant sheen of a 19th-century epic, but its concerns – the intersection of science and faith, the feminine struggle for fulfilment – are especially modern
Steve Almond
International Herald Tribune
The story of Alma Whittaker’s journey of discovery has irresistible momentum
Helen Dunmore
... Read more
Steve Almond
International Herald Tribune
The story of Alma Whittaker’s journey of discovery has irresistible momentum
Helen Dunmore
... Read more