The genius of the world
Subtitle: a novel
By: Alice Lightenstein.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Zoland Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Grandfathers -- Fiction.; Scientists -- Fiction.; Buddhists -- Fiction.; Death -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Genius of the World, takes us on a journey of the body and the spirit. The novel moves from Princeton, New Jersey to the coast of California, from a family's Jewish history into a rebellious boy's mysterious conversion to Buddhism.

This is a story of many voices - Ira, troubled and headstrong, dying of cancer; Abbey, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and family patriarch; Phoebe, middle child, seeking a path that will reconcile her love for these two men; and Eileen, a woman terrified by her father's fury and her children's desires.

These voices together tell a tale of intergenerational obligation, of the search for identity, of spiritual yearning, and of the urge to both deeply honor the inner self and yet remain connected to the family."--BOOK JACKET.