{"product_id":"9780743258098","title":"Evidence of Things Unseen A Novel - Wiggins, Marianne","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eEvidence of Things Unseen A Novel\u003c\/u\u003e by Wiggins, Marianne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished by Simon and Schuster, 2004\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\n\nFos 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.\n\n \n\nFos 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.\n\n \n\nAnd 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.\n\n \n\nHypnotic and powerful, Evidence of Things Unseen constructs a heartbreaking arc through twentieth-century American life and belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eProduct image is for illustration purposes only and may not be an exact representation of the product offered for sale.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon and Schuster, 2004","offers":[{"title":"Evidence of Things Unseen A Novel \/ Very Good","offer_id":54064782180644,"sku":"9780743258098VG","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/9951\/4148\/files\/17023903482452.jpg?v=1779987789","url":"https:\/\/brookingsbooks.com\/products\/9780743258098","provider":"Brookings Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}