A historian, trying to finish a long-overdue book on Isaac Newton, rent a cottage not far by train from Dublin for the summer. All he need, he thinks, is a few weeks of concentrated work. Why, he must unravel, did Newton break down in 1693? What possessed him to write that strange letter to his friend John Locke? But in the long seeping summer days, old sloth and present reality take over.
- ISBN13 9781567920963
- Publish Date 1 May 1999 (first published 24 May 1982)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 April 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English