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Title	:	Evidence of Things Unseen
Author	:	Marianne Wiggins
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 2003)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

Evidence of Things Unseen

Marianne Wiggins

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 2357 Users | 418 Reviews

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This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future. Fos has returned to Tennessee from the trenches of France. Intrigued with electricity, bioluminescence, and especially x-rays, he believes in science and the future of technology. On a trip to the Outer Banks to study the Perseid meteor shower, he falls in love with Opal, whose father is a glassblower who can spin color out of light. Fos brings his new wife back to Knoxville where he runs a photography studio with his former Army buddy Flash. A witty rogue and a staunch disbeliever in Prohibition, Flash brings tragedy to the couple when his appetite for pleasure runs up against both the law and the Ku Klux Klan. Fos and Opal are forced to move to Opal's mother's farm on the Clinch River, and soon they have a son, Lightfoot. But when the New Deal claims their farm for the TVA, Fos seeks work at the Oak Ridge Laboratory -- Site X in the government's race to build the bomb. And it is there, when Opal falls ill with radiation poisoning, that Fos's great faith in science deserts him. Their lives have traveled with touching inevitability from their innocence and fascination with "things that glow" to the new world of manmade suns. Hypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief.

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Original Title:	Evidence of Things Unseen
ISBN:	0743258096 (ISBN13: 9780743258098)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Knoxville, Tennessee(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2004), California Book Award for Fiction (Gold) (2003), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2003)

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Ratings: 4.07 From 2357 Users | 418 Reviews

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(Note: When my opinion is so absolutely opposite of the majority of the readers of a book, I feel a bit more than just the star-rating is necessary. In this case, it's not difficult to explain why I have the opinion I do.)I was very excited when I started this book. We live on Clinch Mountain near to Clinch River and not that far from Oak Ridge. Since I was born in the 50s, the development of The Bomb, has always interested me. That it's written by a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize

The first thing I noticed in this book was Wiggens use of poetic language. Beautiful. But in the beginning of the book at least, it was too much for me. Like too many plums in the pudding, too much sauce on the pasta. Tasty gems need a matrix to shine against. When its all chocolate chips and no cookie it can become cloying. The writing, lovely as it was, slowed me down because it kept bringing attention to itself. I love gorgeous writing, but when Im reading a novel I dont want to keep stopping

Absolutely beautiful book. I read it as slowly as I possibly could so as to savor it.

I don't really know what this book was about. I followed everything ok, but not sure where it all went. It is a sprawling plot, arcing over decades and generations. There are some interesting locations and points in time - WWI, Outer Banks, TVA dams, Jim Crow, WWII and Oak Ridge. There is a love story that is lovely. But the book begins and ends with Lightfoot, and why? The writing was lovely and the story was interesting but I just didn't understand what was driving things and how it all hung

I kept encountering positive reviews of this book, but the description always left me unmoved -- according to the back of the book, it "describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things unseen that would transfigure our unquestioned trust in a safe future." That sounds tiresome, yes? Fortunately for me, we can completely disregard that explanation. This book was truly winsome. Okay,

This ranks right up there with Crossing to Safety as one of the best novels about marriage. The quirky yet believable main characters were so curious, kind, and tragic. A very unique and satisfying story. I didn't even mind all of the unbelievable coincidences in the end, because it was so well crafted. Plus, the longer I live, the longer I realize that bizarre coincidences aren't really all that rare, or all that coincidental.

A wonderful book about love--of wife, husband, friend, child, life.