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Oh pure and radiant heart / Lydia Millet.
Van Pelt Library PS3563.I42175 O37 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millet, Lydia, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Szilard, Leo.
- Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967.
- Nuclear physicists.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 1904-1967--Fiction.
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert.
- Fermi, Enrico, 1901-1954--Fiction.
- Fermi, Enrico.
- Nuclear physicists--Fiction.
- Women librarians--Fiction.
- Women librarians.
- Santa Fe (N.M.)--Fiction.
- Santa Fe (N.M.).
- Szilard, Leo--Fiction.
- Celebrities--Fiction.
- Celebrities.
- Atomic bomb--Fiction.
- Atomic bomb.
- Time travel--Fiction.
- Time travel.
- Genre:
- Science fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 489 pages; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2005]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1932360859
- OCLC:
- 57452417
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