Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Hardcover)

from JeffV

The premise of the book -- that which got me interested in the first place -- is that Enrico Fermi, Robert Oppenheimer, and Leo Szilard had their post-test Manhattan Project selves suddenly reincarnated in the early 21st century. Millet seems to parlay the theme as a vehicle to spout her own view...

from stonelaura

On the day of the Trinity nuclear bomb, July 16, 1945, test Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi go to sleep only to wake in the year 2003. They have dropped not only into a strange and unsettling future, but also into the troubled emotional life of Ann, a reserved and unassuming youn...

from stillatim

novels this ambitious (nuclear science military-industrial complex American religion), fascinating, imaginative (Oppenheimer, Fermi and Szilard come back from the dead!), and funny (great satire of the sun belt rich) don't come along all that often. They should be read when they do. But, as every...