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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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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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 56492
Title: OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART.
Author: Millet, Lydia
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Jacket Condition: like
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1932360859
ISBN 13: 9781932360851
Publisher: Soft Skull Press,
Place of Publication: Brooklyn, NY:
Date Published: (2005.)
Keywords: los alamos, nuclear bomb, fantasy, new mexico, alternate history,
Bookseller catalogs: Modern first editions;

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