John Cunningham
Cunningham is Avis’s father, a prominent physicist and university professor.
The book
Who they are in the book
Spoiler-freeCunningham is Avis’s father, a prominent physicist and university professor. Ernest’s arguments and Avis’s evidence persuade him that his comfortable world rests on exploitation. He writes a suppressed book, loses his position and property, and joins the movement. He disappears during the struggle; the future record does not establish a clear fate.
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