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Article: 'The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe' by Michael Frayn, a fascinating treatise on cosmos and ourselves.(Book review)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
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- July 25, 2007
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Byline: Bernard Jacobson
"The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe" by Michael Frayn; Metropolitan ($32.50)
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Questions, I often tell listeners when I am lecturing, are much more interesting than answers. For anyone who agrees with that pronouncement, this book will be the happiest of hunting-grounds. I have lived with it now for some weeks, and I should not care to hazard a guess whether the questions it raises number merely in the thousands or in the tens of thousands.
"The Human Touch" is the latest in a series of blockbuster volumes in which writers from whom you might expect something different _ in 2004, the ...
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