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Good Benito

by Alan Lightman · 1995

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Bennett "Benito" Lang is a lonely and confused young boy who finds solace in the ordered and rigorous laws of mathematics and physics. But as an adult, when he most needs the irrefutable order and precision of science itself, Benito will learn that, despite its expansive beauty and power, it is no match for the unfathomable desires and pains of the human heart. Lightman is the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams.

Genre
literary fictionscience fiction
Setting
1990s
Subject
science
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 215 pages

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