num_pages: 244
description: The obsessions, betrayals, and passions of three physicists--a brilliant theorist tormented by his lack of professional acclaim; his brilliant daughter, whose devotion to him causes tragedy for her lover; and her lover, her father's protTgT--threaten their work to unlock some of the deepest mysteries of quantum mechanics, including the very nature of light itself.
language: English
title: Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics
titlecomplete: Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, and Quantum Physics
genres: Fiction, Gothic, Science Fiction, Philosophy, Physics, Literary Fiction, Novels
ratings_count: 258
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Book Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt