The Genius and The Goddess (P.S. Series)

The Genius and The Goddess (P.S. Series)

The Genius and The Goddess (P.S. Series)

The Genius and The Goddess (P.S. Series)

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Overview

Aldous Huxley’s unforgettable tale of a brilliant physicist, his beautiful wife, and the young man who tears their world apart.

Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens—a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance—bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780061724909
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 10/20/2009
Series: P.S. Series
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 259,874
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) is the author of the classic novels Brave New World, Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Perennial Philosophy and The Doors of Perception. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles, California.

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