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OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART.

OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART. Signed hardcover first edition - 2005

by Millet, Lydia

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Millet's latest novel is a black-comic tour de force depicting the "second coming" of atomic bomb creators Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard. Despite being dead, these scientists are spotted in Santa Fe by a shy librarian, who joins them on a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C.

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Brooklyn, NY: : Soft Skull Press,, (2005.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First printing. Described as an "apocalyptic fable" and as "a combination of political thriller, a sci-fi romp and a poetic medititation on history [which] confronts America's nuclear legacy and present lunacy with furious satire and haunting grace." In this novel the three scientists most responsible for the atom bomb - Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard - are displaced to modern America at the moment the first mushroom cloud formed over New Mexico, and are taken in by a reference librarian and her doting gardener husband. SIGNED on the title page. 489 pp.
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  • Title OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART.
  • Author Millet, Lydia
  • Binding SIGNED hardcover first edition -
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Soft Skull Press,, Brooklyn, NY:
  • Date (2005.)
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 56492
  • ISBN 9781932360851 / 1932360859
  • Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.62 x 6.36 x 1.36 in (24.43 x 16.15 x 3.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005001028
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 04/01/2005, Page 1345
  • Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2006, Page 10
  • Booksense '76 July 2005, 07/01/2005, Page 1
  • Entertainment Weekly, 07/08/2005, Page 72
  • Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 48
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2005, Page 444
  • New York Times, 08/28/2005, Page 17
  • New Yorker (The), 07/25/2005, Page 97
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/16/2005, Page 34
  • Quill & Quire, 08/01/2005, Page 26
  • Vanity Fair, 07/01/2005, Page 40

About the author

Lydia Millet has written more than a dozen novels and story collections, often about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her story collection Fight No More received an Award of Merit from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019, and her collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010. She also writes essays, opinion pieces and other ephemera and has worked as an editor and staff writer at the Center for Biological Diversity since 1999. She lives in the desert outside Tucson with her children and boyfriend.

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