Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
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Author: Lydia Millet
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 464
July 16, 1945. The world s first mushroom cloud, produced by the first ever atomic bomb, rises above the New Mexico desert. Physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi are there to watch the detonation of their brainchild. The bomb s third godfather , Leo Szilard, is in Chicago. As the bomb detonates, all three suddenly find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, eventually establishing that they have, somehow, arrived in the year 2003. hen Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard appear in Santa Fe in 2003, Ann, a reference librarian, and her doting gardener husband, Ben, take them in. With the long-dead scientists for houseguests, Ann and Ben are swept up in a quixotic and calamitous quest that takes them from Ground Zero in Hiroshima to the United Nations on a ramshackle pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament. As the scientists cross the United States they attract a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists and religious fanatics who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. Meanwhile Ann and Ben fight to save their marriage, gravely threatened by her obsessive devotion to the men of the Manhattan project. n this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia
Author: Lydia Millet
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 464
July 16, 1945. The world s first mushroom cloud, produced by the first ever atomic bomb, rises above the New Mexico desert. Physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi are there to watch the detonation of their brainchild. The bomb s third godfather , Leo Szilard, is in Chicago. As the bomb detonates, all three suddenly find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, eventually establishing that they have, somehow, arrived in the year 2003. hen Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard appear in Santa Fe in 2003, Ann, a reference librarian, and her doting gardener husband, Ben, take them in. With the long-dead scientists for houseguests, Ann and Ben are swept up in a quixotic and calamitous quest that takes them from Ground Zero in Hiroshima to the United Nations on a ramshackle pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament. As the scientists cross the United States they attract a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists and religious fanatics who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. Meanwhile Ann and Ben fight to save their marriage, gravely threatened by her obsessive devotion to the men of the Manhattan project. n this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Lydia Millet
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 464
July 16, 1945. The world s first mushroom cloud, produced by the first ever atomic bomb, rises above the New Mexico desert. Physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi are there to watch the detonation of their brainchild. The bomb s third godfather , Leo Szilard, is in Chicago. As the bomb detonates, all three suddenly find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, eventually establishing that they have, somehow, arrived in the year 2003. hen Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard appear in Santa Fe in 2003, Ann, a reference librarian, and her doting gardener husband, Ben, take them in. With the long-dead scientists for houseguests, Ann and Ben are swept up in a quixotic and calamitous quest that takes them from Ground Zero in Hiroshima to the United Nations on a ramshackle pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament. As the scientists cross the United States they attract a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists and religious fanatics who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. Meanwhile Ann and Ben fight to save their marriage, gravely threatened by her obsessive devotion to the men of the Manhattan project. n this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia
Author: Lydia Millet
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 464
July 16, 1945. The world s first mushroom cloud, produced by the first ever atomic bomb, rises above the New Mexico desert. Physicists Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi are there to watch the detonation of their brainchild. The bomb s third godfather , Leo Szilard, is in Chicago. As the bomb detonates, all three suddenly find themselves in unfamiliar surroundings, eventually establishing that they have, somehow, arrived in the year 2003. hen Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard appear in Santa Fe in 2003, Ann, a reference librarian, and her doting gardener husband, Ben, take them in. With the long-dead scientists for houseguests, Ann and Ben are swept up in a quixotic and calamitous quest that takes them from Ground Zero in Hiroshima to the United Nations on a ramshackle pilgrimage for nuclear disarmament. As the scientists cross the United States they attract a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists and religious fanatics who believe Oppenheimer is the Second Coming. Meanwhile Ann and Ben fight to save their marriage, gravely threatened by her obsessive devotion to the men of the Manhattan project. n this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
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