Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2005. First Printing . Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 489 pp. Brown cloth. Signed by the author on the title page. This novel imagines a world in which the three geniuses who were key to the invention of the atom bomb - physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard - are displaced to contemporary America at the moment history's first mushroom cloud rises over the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. Binding tight, text clean.

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Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function. -from OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART In Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, the three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb-Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert in 1945. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations. Along the way, they acquire a billionaire pothead benefactor and a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists, former Deadheads, New Age freeloaders, and religious fanatics. In this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia Millet brings us an apocalyptic fable that marries the personal to the political, confronts the longing for immortality with the desire for redemption, and evokes both the beauty and the tragedy of the nuclear sublime.

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Bookseller: Paperback Recycler (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 47170
Title: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
Author: Millet, Lydia
Format/Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1932360859
ISBN 13: 9781932360851
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, NY
Date Published: 2005
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: Novel Fiction Robert Oppenheimer Enrico Ermi Nuclear Physicists Santa Fe New Mexico Atomic Bomb

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