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While he lived, Lavoisier was at the center of a glittering intellectual circle and furthered the cause of science more than anyone else in France at the time. Bell, a prolific and distinguished novelist knows the epoch well tells Lavoisier's story with the narrative skill of the master novelist that he is. Whether he's writing about the Haitian Revolution or a white Tae Kwon Do teacher in the Baltimore ghetto, Madison Smartt Bell can be extraordinarily flexible while maintaining his simple but poetic way with language. As the New York Times Book Review once put it, "[Bell] has an uncanny understanding of the way many people must struggle to live." More About the Author |
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