{"product_id":"light-perpetual-paperback","title":"Light Perpetual - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancis Spufford\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGolden Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, an \"extraordinary...symphonic...casually stunning\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages--after all, everything's been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWho were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel, inspired by real events, lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the lives of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs and disasters; of second chances and redemption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIngenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, \u003ci\u003eLight Perpetual\u003c\/i\u003e \"offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) and illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 05, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692303421503,"sku":"9781982174156","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/18423f53224dfbc2b7d59b1f12f0d127.webp?v=1764994992","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/light-perpetual-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}