TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spufford,Francis
TI  - Light perpetual: a novel 
SN  - 9780571336494
AV  - PR6119.P84 S68 2021
U1  - 823/.92 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Fate and fatalism
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - FICTION / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - FICTION / Historical / World War II
KW  - FICTION / Family Life / General
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - London (England)
KW  - History
KW  - Bombardment, 1940-1941
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Novels
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Author of Golden Hill"--Dust jacket
N2  - A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London; 1944: A crowd gathers at the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in southeast London. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. In an alternative reel of time, the life arcs of these five souls are followed through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates, we witness their disasters, second chances, and redemption. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -