The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space
Pippa Goldschmidt
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
3.67
· 3 ratings · 288 pages · Published: 02 Jan 2015
Goldschmidt allows us to spy on Bertolt Brecht, as he rewrites his play Life of Galileo with Charles Laughton after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She introduces us to Albert Einstein as he deals with the loss of his first child, Liesel. We meet Robert Oppenheimer scheming against his tutor, Professor Patrick Blackett, at Cambridge University, having fallen in love with Blackett's wife. She tells the story of a female university student starting a love affair with her lecturer paralleled alongside the 'relationship' between Alice and Bob, two imaginary figures that symbolise the theory of relativity.
Goldschmidt's scope can be epic, at other times intimate, providing a forensic examination of relationships and the forces that influence them.