Oh Pure and Radiant Heart - Lydia Millet - Music - Dreamscape Media - 9781662071089 - May 11, 2021
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart

Lydia Millet

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. 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 tragedy of the nuclear sublime.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released May 11, 2021
ISBN13 9781662071089
Label Dreamscape Media
Dimensions 119 × 137 × 10 mm   ·   68 g

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