{"product_id":"half-life-a-novel-1","title":"Half Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eUSA Today \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eIn\u003cp\u003eAnother Time \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ereimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie\u003cp\u003eusing a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003escience if she’d made a different choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Poland in 1891, Marie Curie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebroke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewould attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCurie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewoman to win a Nobel Prize.But what if she had made a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edifferent choice?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat if she had stayed in Poland,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emarried Kazimierz at the age of twenty-four, and never attended the Sorbonne or\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ediscovered radium? What if she had chosen a life of domesticity with a constant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehunger for knowledge in Russian Poland where education for women was restricted,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einstead of studying science in Paris and meeting Pierre Curie?\u003c\/p\u003eEntwining Marie Curie’s real story\u003cp\u003ewith Marya Zorawska’s fictional one, \u003cem\u003eHalf Life \u003c\/em\u003eexplores loves lost and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edestinies unfulfilled—and probes issues of loyalty and identity, gender and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclass, motherhood and sisterhood, fame and anonymity, scholarship and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge. Through parallel contrasting versions of Marya’s life, Jillian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCantor’s unique historical novel asks what would have happened if a great\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escientific mind was denied opportunity and access to education. It examines how\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe lives of one remarkable woman and the people she loved – as well as the world\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eat large and course of science and history—might have been irrevocably changed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein ways both great and small.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jillian Cantor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":55254438248739,"sku":"9780062969873","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55254438215971,"sku":"9780062969880","price":14.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062969873.jpg?v=1781828238","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/half-life-a-novel-1","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}