false <![CDATA[Oh Pure and Radiant Heart]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167346329m/22254.jpg 22254 5 <div><i>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.</i> -from OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br></div> 1223585 2005 Oh Pure and Radiant Heart total:184|5:51|4:65|3:42|2:19|1:7| 184 686 366 52 3 3 false false Tue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 03:13:36 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 03:36:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false true Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 28 14:57:49 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 15:09:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:34:26 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:34:26 -0800 2009 Oppenheimer, Szilard, and Fermi can deal with life in the 2000s, but their consciences don't fare as well; the scientists seek redemption both for themselves and the modern world. Despite the outlandish premise of her new novel__a combination of black comedy, history, science, time travel, and spiri...

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The best funny was the Christian fundamentalists deciding that Oppenheimer was a Christ figure ... as opposed to the other Jewish character with him who they didn't like. His dry understanding about what it means to be an assimilate...more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Jul 13 07:00:23 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 07:00:27 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 06 09:29:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 15 05:15:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Apr 14 18:47:14 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 14 18:49:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Sep 30 15:47:37 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 30 15:48:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Jun 25 12:55:27 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 12:55:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 17 13:32:51 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 08:40:11 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 11:09:16 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 11:23:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Aug 17 17:01:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 17:01:00 -0700 2009 here to find it in the catalogue.more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Dec 07 09:19:56 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 21:00:50 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 07 09:19:44 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 19 17:13:27 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 04 15:09:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 08 20:49:41 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 26 18:34:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 12 04:04:47 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 26 17:42:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 19 07:55:28 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 03 18:37:18 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 14:58:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 19:09:05 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 05 18:21:27 -0800 2008
I was most taken with the Marx-brothery nature of the...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=22254