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Author : Greg Mitchell
Release : 2011-02-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 14X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Strange Man by : Greg Mitchell
Download or read book The Strange Man written by Greg Mitchell. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV Dras Weldon is a twenty-two-year-old unemployed washout. He lives in a world populated by horror movies and comic books, content to hide in the shadow of adolescence. /div
Author : Graham Farmelo
Release : 2009-01-22
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 076/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Strangest Man by : Graham Farmelo
Download or read book The Strangest Man written by Graham Farmelo. This book was released on 2009-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph
Author : Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto
Release : 1968
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Strange Man by : Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto
Download or read book The Strange Man written by Solomon Alexander Amu Djoleto. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mensa endures his Ghanaian childhood under the shadow of successive tyrannical headmasters. In his maturity he struggles with the trials that village jealousies and his own family lie upon him.
Author : Ruth Rendell
Release : 2010-12-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 911/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Talking to Strange Men by : Ruth Rendell
Download or read book Talking to Strange Men written by Ruth Rendell. This book was released on 2010-12-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely man stumbles into a dangerous game in this twisting novel of psychological suspense by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Crocodile Bird. In a desolate alley on the bank of the Thames, a spy slips through the shadows. Mungo is the Director General of English intelligence, and he knows Moscow Centre has been watching him for weeks, but there is no spy in London better at losing a tail. Satisfied he hasn’t been followed, he drops off his message and disappears into the night. It’s a classic scene of Cold War espionage, save for one detail: Mungo isn’t a spy at all. He’s a teenager, playing an epic game of make-believe. John Creevey, still reeling from the implosion of his marriage, is dreaming of taking revenge against his wife’s lover when he discovers one of Mungo’s coded signals. Unaware that the message is simply part of a child’s game, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the rest of the spy network—a tragic misunderstanding that threatens to turn this imaginary war into something very real—and very deadly. “Rendell has brilliantly interwoven these compelling strands into one masterful tale of suspense,” writes Library Journal. Three-time Edgar Award winner Ruth Rendell was a master of psychological suspense, and Talking to Strange Men is one of the most unusual espionage stories in the history of the Cold War.
Author : Alannah Hopkin
Release : 2021
Genre : Authors, Irish
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Very Strange Man by : Alannah Hopkin
Download or read book A Very Strange Man written by Alannah Hopkin. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland's great Modernist tradition. They wrote steadily during their twenty-nine years together, but their careers could not have been more different: while Aidan focused on fiction and memoirs, Alannah prioritised work that paid the bills. This gave Aidan the most stable and productive years of his life. But as his eyesight failed and his memory began to fade, Alannah became his carer and had to fight to keep her own writing career alive. Drawing from diaries and notebooks, and correspondence with writers such as Samuel Beckett, Alice Munro and Harold Pinter, this is a unique record of a major Irish writer. From the joyful honeymoon years - filled with launches, festivals and visits to their Kinsale home by Richard Ford, Edna O'Brien and other literary legends - to the increasingly difficult years of Aidan's decline, Hopkin tells their story candidly and without commentary. She shows us how, in spite of all, they remained the best of friends, in love until Aidan's very last breath.
