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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

by Lydia Millet (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $3.25
Synopsis

July 16, 1945. The world's first atomic mushroom cloud rises above New Mexico desert. At the moment of detonation, the men responsible for the bomb, the physicists Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, suddenly find themselves thrown forward in time to the year 2003. As they adjust to life in the 'future', Ann, a librarian, and her doting husband, Ben, befriend them. How the charismatic, time-travelling scientists affect both modern America and the marriage of these two ordinary people, is the subject of Lydia Millet's heroically mischievous tragicomedy. Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0099499436
ISBN 13: 9780099499435
Book Overview: An extraordinarily original novel of the A-bomb era, comparable to Vonnegut, Delillo, Murakami and Houellebecq in its unsettling power.

Media Reviews
A risky, cheeky and unforgettable tour de force... Millet writes beautifully, and almost every page has a quotable line... Oh Pure and Radiant Heart is a melancholy account of how men, and cultures, go wrong, and a love story about trust and persistence. It is shocking, hilarious and meaningful. More please Scotsman Subversive, shocking, pertinent... Combining the personal and the political... A sweeping tour de force Esquire Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller... Genius Vanity Fair One of my favourite contemporary American writers, Millet never repeats a trick and has invented more than a few -- Jonathan Lethem A risky, cheeky and unforgettable tour de force... It is shocking, hilarious and meaningful. More please -- Stuart Kelly Scotland on Sunday
Author Bio
Lydia Millet is the author of several previous novels including the gloriously titled George Bush: Dark Prince of Love, and My Happy Life, winner of the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction. During the early 1990's she was a sub-editor at magazines such as Hustler, Busty Beauties and S.W.A.T. She lives in the desert outside Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and daughter.