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J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb that he helped create, before ultimately lobbying against nuclear proliferation.
Louisa Hall, the acclaimed author of Speak, has returned with a kaleidoscopic novel about the father of the atomic bomb. Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of seven fictional characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer--from a Secret Service agent who tailed him in San Francisco to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on the island of St. John. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives.
In this stunning, elliptical novel, Louisa Hall has crafted a breathtaking and explosive story about the ability of the human mind to believe what it wants, about public and private tragedy, and about power and guilt. Blending science with literature and fiction with biography, Trinity asks searing questions about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.
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- Title Trinity
- Author Louisa Hall
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Ecco Press
- ISBN 9780062851963 / 0062851969
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.9 x 1.3 in (21.34 x 14.99 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Biographical fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018022070
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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- Booklist, 09/01/2018, Page 57
- BookPage, 11/01/2018, Page 0
- Kirkus Reviews, 08/15/2018, Page 0
- Library Journal, 09/01/2018, Page 53
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 05/01/2018, Page 45
- Publishers Weekly, 08/06/2018, Page 0
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