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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING] Hardcover - 2005

by Millet, Lydia

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  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first

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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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.
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  • Title Oh Pure and Radiant Heart [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
  • Author Millet, Lydia
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Pages 506
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Soft Skull, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005
  • Features Dust Cover, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5005
  • 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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