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The Search (Hardcover)

by C.P. Snow (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; New Ed edition (Dec 1958)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333072839
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333072837
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,829,253 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book but rather dated, 9 Jan 2010
By Malcolm Baird - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Search, The (Paperback)
This novel was first published in 1934 by the famous but now largely forgotten originator of the Strangers and Brothers series of novels. The book takes us back to an era when a professorial chair brought an income of £800 (or say $3000) per year. Science in the UK was small enough that everyone in the top echelons knew everyone else. The main character in the book, like Snow himself , made an abrupt change from science to writing while still in his 20s.

I first read and enjoyed this book as a student fifty years ago, but now after reading it again I realize how dated the attitudes are. All the main characters are university academics and while they agree about the importance of science and research, there is an arrogant contempt for applied research as shown by this passage:

"Scientific industry is the refuge of the not-quite-successful-enough (which is why industrial thousands are wasted on research)."

By a strange twist of events, Snow served as parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Technology in Britain's Labour government in the 1960s. Today we need a scientific novelist who is as good a writer as Snow but is better able to provide a balanced viewpoint of science and research.

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