{"product_id":"natural-wonders-angela-woodward-9781573660556","title":"Natural Wonders","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatural Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth's history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband's papers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eNatural Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan's lecture series about the physical history of the earth. With little knowledge of his work or of Jonathan himself, Jenny constructs from his fragmentary and disorganized notes her own version of our planet's past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Presented as a series of lectures, Jenny's earth history is an amalgam of stories from science and about scientists--a Serbian mathematician and his theory of the ice ages, a Swiss doctor camped on a glacier, the mysterious \u003ci\u003emateria pinguis\u003c\/i\u003e thought to have drifted down from stars to form fossils. Into these stories she interweaves scenes from their marriage as well as material she finds on Jonathan's shelves. In her history, an explanation of continental drift becomes enmeshed with a schoolboy's erotic encounter with an older woman. Icebergs in an Andean lake launch a woman's jealous affair with a third-rate actor, and H. G. Wells's \u003ci\u003eIsland of Dr. Moreau\u003c\/i\u003e is dramatically recounted in new form. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatural Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e mixes mythology, popular fiction, and a misfired romance with the story of the earth hurtling around the sun. From intimately human to geologic to cosmic, it explores change, love, and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Angela Woodward\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573660558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573660556\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/23\/2016","brand":"Angela Woodward","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962645860607,"sku":"9781573660556","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_815964b5-227b-434f-a019-1395f0d59544.jpg?v=1750652093","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/natural-wonders-angela-woodward-9781573660556","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}