Half life: a novel
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"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 Curie's real story with Marya Zorawska's fictional one, Half Life explores loves lost and destinies unfulfilled - and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and class, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and knowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya's life, Jillian Cantor's unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great scientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how the lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved - as well as the world at large and course of science and history - might have been irrevocably changed in ways both great and small."--Publisher.
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Alternative histories (Fiction)
Biographical fiction
Curie, Marie
Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934 -- Fiction
Destinies
Destinies -- Fiction
Electronic books
Equality
Equality -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Poland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Social life and customs
Women
Women -- Fiction
Women chemists
Women chemists -- Fiction
Biographical fiction
Curie, Marie
Curie, Marie, -- 1867-1934 -- Fiction
Destinies
Destinies -- Fiction
Electronic books
Equality
Equality -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Poland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Social life and customs
Women
Women -- Fiction
Women chemists
Women chemists -- Fiction
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9780062969880
9780063070363
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9780063070363
9780062969897
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Destinies -- Fiction
Electronic books
Equality -- Fiction
Fiction
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Poland -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
Women -- Fiction
Women chemists -- Fiction
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Destinies -- Fiction
Electronic books
Equality -- Fiction
Fiction
Literature -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction
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Women -- Fiction
Women chemists -- Fiction
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Literature
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Women
Women chemists
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