Einsteins Dreams, Alan Lightman
Einsteins Dreams, Alan Lightman
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Einstein's Dreams

Author: Alan Lightman

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 2 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2015

Synopsis

In poetic vignettes, Einstein’s Dreams explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.A modern classic, Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, and people are fated to repeat their triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.Translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.

About Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman, an active research scientist in astronomy and physics, has taught at both Harvard and MIT. His novels include Einstein’s Dreams, which was a New York Times and international bestseller; Good Benito; The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for the 2000 National Book Award; and Reunion. His essays have appeared in the New York Review of Books, New York Times, Nature, Atlantic Monthly, and the New Yorker.

About Grover Gardner

Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over a thousand titles to his credit. Named one of the “Best Voices of the Century” and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards.

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“It is at once intellectually provocative and touching and comic and so very beautifully written.” Salman Rushdie, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Impressionistic…the writing, beautifully simple, conveys better than most texts the strangeness of Einstein’s ideas.” Time

“A magical, metaphysical realm…Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” New York Times

“Lightman is an artist who paints with the notion of time.” Los Angeles Times

“Enchanting.” Washington Post Book World

“A wonderfully odd, clever, mystical book of meditations on time, poetically spare and delightfully fresh.” Chicago Tribune

“Mr. Lightman successfully has combined his talents to create an imaginative work that explores the motivations of a great scientist.” Dallas Morning News

“Endlessly fascinating. A beguiling inquiry into the not-at-all theoretical, utterly time-tangled, tragic and sublime nature of human life.” Boston Globe

“A brilliant novel of time in its marvelous flight…gorgeous in its writing, spellbinding and profound in its effects.” Chicago Sun-Times

“A beautiful work of fiction that explores the nature of creativity…takes you as close as you’re likely to get to Einstein’s inner world…Lightman is a wonderful writer.” Minneapolis Star Tribune

Awards

  • New York Times Bestseller
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