| Turbulence Contributor(s): Foden, Giles (Author) |
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ISBN: 030747626X ISBN-13: 9780307476265 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.32" W x 7.98" (0.58 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Giles Foden, the prizewinning author of The Last King of Scotland, delivers a mesmerizing blend of fact and fiction in this novel about how human beings deal with uncertainty. Five days before D-day, a team of Allied scientists is charged with making an accurate weather forecast for the landings. Henry Meadows--a young math prodigy from the Met Office--is sent to Scotland to uncover Wallace Ryman's revolutionary system for understanding turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics. But Ryman is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets, and when Henry meets Gill--Ryman's beautiful wife--events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control. |