Ebook: Oh pure and radiant heart
Author: Fermi Enrico, Oppenheimer J. Robert, Szilard Leo, Oppenheimer J. Robert, Szilard Leo, Millet Lydia, Fermi Enrico
- Tags: Fermi Enrico -- 1901-1954 -- Fiction. Oppenheimer J. Robert -- 1904-1967 -- Fiction. Szilard Leo -- Fiction. Atomic bomb -- Fiction. Celebrities -- Fiction. Nuclear physicists -- Fiction. Time travel -- Fiction. Women librarians -- Fiction. Santa Fe (N.M.) -- Fiction. Fermi Enrico -- 1901-1954. Oppen
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Soft Skull Press
- City: Santa Fe (N.M.), New Mexico--Santa Fe
- Language: English
- epub
Acclaimed author Lydia Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian named Ann. She becomes convinced they are real and, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. The trio quickly acquire a sugar daddy? a young pothead millionaire from Read more...
Abstract: Acclaimed author Lydia Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian named Ann. She becomes convinced they are real and, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. The trio quickly acquire a sugar daddy? a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo? and a vast cult following of hippies, Christians, New Agers, bikers, A-bomb survivors, and curious anthropologists who join them on an RV pilgrimage to Washington, D.C