GOOD BENITO
A Novel
From the author of the best-selling Einstein’s Dreams comes a wonderfully original, deeply moving, and wryly funny novel about the clash between the absolutes of science and the vagaries of human experience.
Bennett always knew he would live a life of science. From the homemade rockets and experiments of his childhood to the complex equations he solved as a professor of physics, his vision has transformed the uncertainty and frailty of life into an order and beauty that he inhabits with deep satisfaction. But his vision betrays him, revealing a profound incompleteness, an inadequacy to confront the contradictions his life: the black maid who raises him and loves him but cannot welcome him into her own house, the mentally absent father…
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March 23, 2011
ALAN LIGHTMAN earned his PhD in physics from the California Institute of Technology and is the author of seven novels, including the international best seller Einstein’s Dreams and The Diagnosis, a finalist for the National Book Award. His nonfiction includes The Accidental Universe, Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine, and Probable Impossibilities. He has taught at Harvard and at MIT, where he was the first person to receive a dual faculty appointment in science and the humanities. He is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is the host of the public television series Searching: Our Quest for Meaning in the Age of Science.
The Shape of Wonder
Alan Lightman and Martin Rees
The Miraculous from the Material
Alan Lightman
The Transcendent Brain
Alan Lightman
Probable Impossibilities
Alan Lightman
Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Alan Lightman
Screening Room
Alan Lightman
The Accidental Universe
Alan Lightman
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
Mr g
Alan Lightman
GOOD BENITO
Alan Lightman
Ghost
Alan Lightman
The Discoveries
Alan Lightman
A Sense of the Mysterious
Alan Lightman