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A lily of the field / John Lawton.

Title
A lily of the field / John Lawton.
Author
Lawton, John, 1949-
Publication
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010.

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Description
381 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
Subject
  • World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction
  • Cellists > Fiction
  • Physicists > Fiction
  • Murder > Fiction
  • Violoncellists > Fiction
  • Physicists > Fiction
  • Homicide > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Historical fiction
  • Mystery fiction
  • Historical fiction.
  • Mystery fiction.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780802119568
  • 0802119565
OCLC
  • 555627769
  • SCSB-12738869
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library