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—who worked for many years as a theoretical physicist—is the author of six novels, including the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams, as well as The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. He is also the author of a memoir, three collections of essays, and several books on science. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, Granta, Harper’s Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Salon, and Nature, among other publications. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He lives in the Boston area.

About Grover Gardner

Alexander Adams is a pseudonym for narrator Grover Gardner. His most high-profile book to date is the unabridged novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, recorded in a joint effort by BOT and Random House under the Adams moniker. He lives in Maryland.

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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

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