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Title Half life : a novel / Jillian Cantor.
Publisher New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description 381, 12 pages : illustrations, photograph ; 24 cm
Edition First edition.


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 DX-Room 310 - Adult  FICTION CANTOR Nearby on shelf  3 1974 02116 3679 09-14-21  AVAILABLE
 ML-Fiction  FICTION CANTOR  3 1974 02116 4255 01-28-22  AVAILABLE
Note Includes P.S. Insights, Interviews & More... (pages 2-12).
Summary "In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. But what if she had made a different choice? What if she had stayed in Poland, married Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or discovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant hunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted, instead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie? Entwining Marie Curies real story with Marya Zorawskas fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilledand probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge."-- Dust jacket.
Subject Curie, Marie, 1867-1934 -- Fiction.
Married women -- Poland -- Fiction.
Women chemists -- Poland -- Fiction.
Women chemists -- France -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
ISBN 9780062969873
0062969870