San Antonio College Library

Centers around Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most powerfully magnetic philosophers of our time--brilliant, tortured, mercurial, forging his own solitary path while leaving a permanent mark on all around him. This first novel features his colleagues/friends/rivals, Cambridge philosophers Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore. The lightly fictionalized work progresses through the convolutions of Wittgenstein's career: his early life in Austria; his arrival...

Isabel's son, Charlie, is now of an age (eighteen months) to have a social life, and so off they go to a birthday party, where, much to Isabel's surprise, she encounters an old adversary, Minty Auchterlonie, now a high-flying financier. Minty had seemed to Isabel a woman of ruthless ambition, but the question of her integrity had never been answered. Now, when Minty takes Isabel into her confidence about a personal matter, Isabel finds herself going...