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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Millet, Lydia
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1932360859
- ISBN 13
- 9781932360851
- Seller
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About This Item
Soft Skull, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author on the title page (signature only). No stated edition or number line (1st printing). Dust jacket has faint edgewear and marked sunning to the spine. Book is fine."'Autographed Copy" sticker. A novel shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award by the PEN Center USA Award-, Guggenheim Fellowship-, American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award-, and New York Times 10 Best Books of 2020-winning author of "A Children's Bible" and "Love in Infant Monkeys". Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
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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- Title
- Oh Pure and Radiant Heart [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Millet, Lydia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1932360859
- ISBN 13
- 9781932360851
- Publisher
- Soft Skull
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 506
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