Hopeful Monsters

Nicholas Mosley

Original title: Hopeful monsters

first published 1990 Vintage, 1991 paperback 550 pages

"Hopeful Monsters is a tour de force of intellect and eros - one in which Albert Einstein taunts a lecture hall full of Nazis and Ludwig Wittgenstein is an awkward guest at an English garden party. It is a love story in which a young English physicist and a German-Jewish anthropologist pursue each other across landscapes that range from Hitler's Germany to Los Alamos on the eve of the atomic age. It is also a pyrote...

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Hopeful monsters edition · 2000 · Dalkey Archive Press · 550 pages
Hopeful monsters edition · 1993 · Vintage Books · 551 pages
Hopeful Monsters paperback · 1991 · Vintage · 550 pages · 9780749391126
Mostri di belle speranze edition · 1990 · ADV
Hopeful monsters edition · 1990 · Dalkey Archive Press · 550 pages
Hopeful monsters edition · 1990 · Secker & Warburg · 550 pages

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