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3100461Two Moonshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/two-moons-9781101872543/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3330613/aeb2574c-064f-4d06-a972-972bff189106.jpg?v=638385218795330000106117MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p>Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work."</p><p>Its the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatorys human "computers." A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed the war that has haunted her life. But the fate of their love affair -- and of Hughs heavenly vision -- may be out of their hands, decided instead by an astrologer and by the actions of a dangerously magnetic politician who wields his power over a Senate convulsed by Reconstruction and a wildly disputed presidential election.</p><p>Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph.</p>...3036965Two Moons106117https://www.gandhi.com.mx/two-moons-9781101872543/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3330613/aeb2574c-064f-4d06-a972-972bff189106.jpg?v=638385218795330000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20159781101872543_W3siaWQiOiI4MWE4N2I1NS0zYjc1LTRhZDQtOWIxZC05ZTk4MDdhYzViMTIiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjExNywiZGlzY291bnQiOjExLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwNiwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDctMDFUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781101872543_<p>Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called one of the most interesting American novelists at work.</p><p>Its the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatorys human computers. A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed the war that has haunted her life. But the fate of their love affair -- and of Hughs heavenly vision -- may be out of their hands, decided instead by an astrologer and by the actions of a dangerously magnetic politician who wields his power over a Senate convulsed by Reconstruction and a wildly disputed presidential election.</p><p>Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph.</p>...(*_*)9781101872543_<p>Astronomy, politics, and romance join forces in this novel from the writer John Updike has called "one of the most interesting American novelists at work."</p><p>Its the spring of 1877 in Washington, D.C., and at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Hugh Allison has conceived a secret ambition: to project an image through time and space. But his plan takes on urgent life only when the mathematically gifted Cynthia May enters his orbit as one of the observatorys human "computers." A Civil War widow whose beauty has been shadowed by worry and poverty, Cynthia reluctantly falls in love with the younger Hugh, who missed the war that has haunted her life. But the fate of their love affair -- and of Hughs heavenly vision -- may be out of their hands, decided instead by an astrologer and by the actions of a dangerously magnetic politician who wields his power over a Senate convulsed by Reconstruction and a wildly disputed presidential election.</p><p>Masterfully combining historical detail and startling invention, Thomas Mallon gives us a galvanizing story of earthly heartbreak and otherworldly triumph.</p>...9781101872543_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_21cd71e3-0913-3e19-863b-cb54004cf599_9781101872543;9781101872543_9781101872543Thomas MallonInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-923c7c23-b55a-42af-ac6d-ba1f241cec20.epub2015-02-03T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group