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Title:Evidence of Things Unseen
Author:Marianne Wiggins
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 400 pages
Published:June 2nd 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published 2003)
Categories:Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction
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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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Ive got to hand it to Goodreads. I never would have even heard of this book if it werent for the reading friends Ive made there. And that would have been a shame, because Evidence of Things Unseen is going on my list of all-time favorite books and likely the best book Ive read this year.The book opens with Fos (nicknamed for Ray Foster), a World War I vet, home from the trenches, with a newfound appreciation for science and technology. He meets Opal on a trip to see the Perseid meteor shower on

I like fiction about people who talk about science.A passage I like (pages 12-13):But the truth was, for that first year after he was demobilized, that first year in Tennessee, Fos eschewed the company of the gentler sex and stayed almost entirely to himself, either in the darkroom of in his rented place above a bakery, studying about light and working on his theories how to capture it. Fos had several theories that first year. One thing that the War had taught him--and that working under

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

Marianne Wiggins for vice president!!!! I love this book...I am completely enamored by Marianne Wiggins' writing. The story of Fos and Opal and Flash and Lightfoot is beautiful and tragic and fascinating. I think The ShadowCatcher is a great American novel and I think this one is an even greater American novel...READ IT!!!! I'm even contemplating going back to Moby Dick and actually reading it this time, as I failed to do so junior year of high school.

I know that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without distrubing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I

This is a touching story of the tender love between Fos and Opal. Fos is a man who has always been fascinated by things that glow...falling stars in the night sky; bioluminescence in the dark sea.He accidentally finds Opal when his truck breaks down while he is in NC to see the meteor showers. Opal is quite the repairman so she has him on the road again quickly...and she's with him.The author, Marianne Wiggins, deserves a Pulitzer Prize for this novel. It is a riveting story of America before

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