
An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women's shelter--these are some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old...
Hardcover: 356 pages
Publisher: Sunstone Press; 1st edition (December 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0865345783
ISBN-13: 978-0865345782
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
Amazon Rank: 5073128
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I am trying to think of the right words to describe this amazing novel. Interesting, adventurous, really smart. Wise. The kind of story, the kind of characters, that rattle around in your head for days after you've finished. The complexity scienc...
rail at the end of the 20th century. Chance has brought them from all over to beautiful, legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape, illuminate, and even deform each other's lives unexpectedly, as if on the very edge of chaos. This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory between frozen predictability and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously unstable place. Learning and change can only happen there, but always under threat of sliding back to frozen order--or over into the chaotic abyss. And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their city's rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future.