The Genius and the Goddess
Paperback - 192 pages
Talking with a friend on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about a famous man—the legendary genius in whose home, 30 years before, ecstasy and torment had laid hold of Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” Rivers had an affair with the man’s wife, bringing the couple to ruin.
The great man was Henry Maartens. To the world at large he was a figure of blinding brilliance: a path-breaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize. But the radiant, elemental creature he married saw the genius with undazzled eyes, and so, too, in time, did his young assistant, the John Rivers of 30 years ago. Finally, reluctantly, he saw what the truth about Maartens would, inescapably, have to mean, taken together with the truth about his wife and the truth about Rivers himself.
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Paperback - 192 pages
Talking with a friend on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about a famous man—the legendary genius in whose home, 30 years before, ecstasy and torment had laid hold of Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” Rivers had an affair with the man’s wife, bringing the couple to ruin.
The great man was Henry Maartens. To the world at large he was a figure of blinding brilliance: a path-breaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize. But the radiant, elemental creature he married saw the genius with undazzled eyes, and so, too, in time, did his young assistant, the John Rivers of 30 years ago. Finally, reluctantly, he saw what the truth about Maartens would, inescapably, have to mean, taken together with the truth about his wife and the truth about Rivers himself.
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Paperback - 192 pages
Talking with a friend on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about a famous man—the legendary genius in whose home, 30 years before, ecstasy and torment had laid hold of Rivers, shocking him out of “half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form.” Rivers had an affair with the man’s wife, bringing the couple to ruin.
The great man was Henry Maartens. To the world at large he was a figure of blinding brilliance: a path-breaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize. But the radiant, elemental creature he married saw the genius with undazzled eyes, and so, too, in time, did his young assistant, the John Rivers of 30 years ago. Finally, reluctantly, he saw what the truth about Maartens would, inescapably, have to mean, taken together with the truth about his wife and the truth about Rivers himself.
