{"product_id":"the-newton-letter-by-john-banville","title":"The Newton Letter By John Banville","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Powerful.”—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettably elegant tale of obsession and the fragile line between reason and desire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this compact literary gem, an historian retreats to a quiet cottage in rural Ireland to complete a biography of Isaac Newton. Why, he must unravel, did Newton suffer a mental collapse in 1693, and why did he write such a strange letter to his friend John Locke—hinting at a personal and philosophical crisis?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut as the summer days drift by, work is stalled as he becomes obsessed with the lives of the people around him—stranded Charlotte; doomed, drunken Edward; mysterious Ottilie. The more he tries to decipher the mysterious web of their lives—even while trying to decipher the central mystery of Newton’s—he becomes undone by the murky, unmeasurable forces of the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBanville’s prose is lyrical and precise, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Newton Letter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a meditation on genius and a portrait of quiet unraveling. A must-read for fans of psychological fiction and literary elegance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Wide Genre","offers":[{"title":"Soft Cover","offer_id":50107736490204,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hard Cover","offer_id":50107736522972,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/2044\/5148\/files\/readersworldsingle_2_65ee4301-ac2e-4310-a02b-20f69c2097d8.png?v=1776921701","url":"https:\/\/widegenre.com\/products\/the-newton-letter-by-john-banville","provider":"WideGenre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}