An Atomic Romance

Author : Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307430634
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Atomic Romance written by Bobbie Ann Mason and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative, rollicking story is the much-anticipated new novel–the first in over a decade–from acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason. In An Atomic Romance we meet Reed Futrell, a sexy, thoughtful hero who grapples with radioactive contamination, a midlife crisis, and string theory–all while falling in love. Reed is an engineer at a uranium-enrichment plant near a riverside city in heartland America. He has deep roots in this community: He was raised there; his father worked at the very same plant before him. And it was here that Reed met, married, and then divorced his wife. Reed spends countless nights camping at a local wildlife preserve, gazing at the stars, fishing and hunting–that is, until deformed frogs are discovered at the site. Though his father was killed in a tragic accident at the atomic plant years ago, Reed stays on, proud to perform demanding and dangerous work for the benefit of the nation. As for the radioactive “incidents” he has endured, Reed prefers to think about other things–Hubble photographs of distant galaxies, Albert Einstein, his dog. Reed’s casual attitude toward danger infuriates his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Julia, as much as his quirky mind and muscular body intrigue her. Julia, a biologist, is truly Reed’s match–or maybe more than his match. They both are witty, curious, and fascinated by science. Indeed, their courtship began with banter about Stephen Hawking’s theories of space-time, and ever since it has been an up-and-down adventure of sexual attraction, intellectual game-playing, and long silences when Julia refuses to return Reed’s calls. When news reports reveal evidence of radioactive pollution in the land surrounding the plant, Reed and Julia’s relationship faces an unprecedented challenge. In An Atomic Romance, Bobbie Ann Mason delivers a brilliant novel set against a backdrop of atomic power: a love story between a motorcycle-riding loner and an independent, strong-minded biologist; between the peaceful present in a typical American community and the nation’s violent nuclear past; and, finally, between a good man and the work he takes pride in, though it may be putting his life in danger.

Author : Shirley Streshinsky
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618580787
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Atomic Love Story written by Shirley Streshinsky and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women. Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the 20th century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with the young Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history. His first and most intense love was for Jean Tatlock, though he married the tempestuous Kitty Harrison—both were members of the Communist Party—and was rumored to have had a scandalous affair with the brilliant Ruth Sherman Tolman, ten years his senior and the wife of another celebrated physicist. Although each were connected through their relationship to Oppenheimer, their experiences reflect important changes in the lives of American women in the 20th century: the conflict between career and marriage; the need for a woman to define herself independently; experimentation with sexuality; and the growth of career opportunities. Beautifully written and superbly researched through a rich collection of firsthand accounts, this intimate portrait shares the tragedies, betrayals, and romances of an alluring man and three bold women, revealing how they pushed to the very forefront of social and cultural changes in a fascinating, volatile era.

Author : Shirley Streshinsky
Publisher : Turner
ISBN 13 : 9781618580191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Atomic Love Story written by Shirley Streshinsky and published by Turner. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping narrative of the love and betrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer, told through the lives of three unique women. Set against a dramatic backdrop of war, spies, and nuclear bombs, An Atomic Love Story unveils a vivid new view of a tumultuous era and one of its most important figures. In the early decades of the 20th century, three highly ambitious women found their way to the West Coast, where each was destined to collide with the young Oppenheimer, the enigmatic physicist whose work in creating the atomic bomb would forever impact modern history. His first and most intense love was for Jean Tatlock, though he married the tempestuous Kitty Harrison--both were members of the Communist Party--and was rumored to have had a scandalous affair with the brilliant Ruth Sherman Tolman, ten years his senior and the wife of another celebrated physicist. Although each were connected through their relationship to Oppenheimer, their experiences reflect important changes in the lives of American women in the 20th century: the conflict between career and marria≥ the need for a woman to define herself independently; experimentation with sexuality; and the growth of career opportunities. Beautifully written and superbly researched through a rich collection of firsthand accounts, this intimate portrait shares the tragedies, betrayals, and romances of an alluring man and three bold women, revealing how they pushed to the very forefront of social and cultural changes in a fascinating, volatile era.

Author : Jennie Fields
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593085345
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Love written by Jennie Fields and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel of science, love, espionage, beautiful writing, and a heroine who carves a strong path in the world of men. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing left to want."--Ann Patchett, author The Dutch House "A highly-charged love story that reveals the dangerous energy at the heart of every real connection...Riveting."--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Love. Desire. Betrayal. Her choice could save a nation. Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special Agent Charlie Szydlo wants Roz to spy on Weaver, whom the FBI suspects of passing nuclear secrets to the enemy. Roz helped to develop these secrets and knows better than anyone the devastating power such knowledge holds. But can she spy on a man she still loves, despite her better instincts? At the same time, something about Charlie draws her in. He's a former prisoner of war haunted by his past, just as her past haunts her. As Rosalind's feelings for each man deepen, so too does the danger she finds herself in. She will have to choose: the man who taught her how to love . . . or the man her love might save?

Author : Elizabeth J. Church
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 161620690X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atomic Weight of Love written by Elizabeth J. Church and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era. In 1941, at seventeen years old, Meridian begins her ornithology studies at the University of Chicago. She is soon drawn to Alden Whetstone, a brilliant, complicated physics professor who opens her eyes to the fundamentals and poetry of his field, the beauty of motion, space and time, the delicate balance of force and energy that allows a bird to fly. Entranced and in love, Meridian defers her own career path and follows Alden west to Los Alamos, where he is engaged in a secret government project (later known to be the atomic bomb). In married life, though, she feels lost and left behind. She channels her academic ambitions into studying a particular family of crows, whose free life and companionship are the very things that seem beyond her reach. There in her canyons, years later at the dawn of the 1970s, with counterculture youth filling the streets and protests against the war rupturing college campuses across the country, Meridian meets Clay, a young geologist and veteran of the Vietnam War, and together they seek ways to mend what the world has broken. Exquisitely capturing the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, The Atomic Weight of Love also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the women’s movement opened up the world for a whole generation.

Author : Patrick O'Donnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119431719
Total Pages : 1607 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction, 2 Volumes written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 1607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh perspectives and eye-opening discussions of contemporary American fiction In The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020, a team of distinguished scholars delivers a focused and in-depth collection of essays on some of the most significant and influential authors and literary subjects of the last four decades. Cutting-edge entries from established and new voices discuss subjects as varied as multiculturalism, contemporary regionalisms, realism after poststructuralism, indigenous narratives, globalism, and big data in the context of American fiction from the last 40 years. The Encyclopedia provides an overview of American fiction at the turn of the millennium as well as a vision of what may come. It perfectly balances analysis, summary, and critique for an illuminating treatment of the subject matter. This collection also includes: An exciting mix of established and emerging contributors from around the world discussing central and cutting-edge topics in American fiction studies Focused, critical explorations of authors and subjects of critical importance to American fiction Topics that reflect the energies and tendencies of contemporary American fiction from the forty years between 1980 and 2020 The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction: 1980-2020 is a must-have resource for undergraduate and graduate students of American literature, English, creative writing, and fiction studies. It will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars seeking an authoritative array of contributions on both established and newer authors of contemporary fiction.

Author : Joe David Bellamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557282781
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atomic Love written by Joe David Bellamy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abby Luby
Publisher : Abby Luby
ISBN 13 : 1935073168
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Romance written by Abby Luby and published by Abby Luby. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuclear Romance, a debut novel by New York journalist Abby Luby, was written after the devastating accident at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plants in March, 2011. In the novel the tragic and mysterious death of a 7-year old girl after swimming at a beach across from a nuclear power plant sets off a chain of events involving a sports journalist, an anti-nuclear activist, a grieving mother and her son. A young woman reporter falls prey to a callous plant executive who is driven to keep the multi-billion dollar nuclear company viable. A clandestine love affair develops against the backdrop of growing anti-nuclear sentiment which escalates after highly radioactive steam escapes from the plant, forcing a mass evacuation.

Author : Fred Fraikor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irene's Secret Diary written by Fred Fraikor and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spellbinding, historically accurate romantic novel takes the reader into the top-secret world of the Manhattan project where Major General Groves is determined at all costs, human or material, to create the first atomic bomb and use it to end the war. Irene Matchuska, a young assistant professor at Columbia University who has overcome gender discrimination in the male world of engineering, handles a blistering interview with the General to work at the secret city of Los Alamos. There she sees the stress and difficulties of women living with censorship and barbed wire isolation. Although Irene has a tenuous fiancé serving in France, Irene finds herself increasingly attracted to her teammate, a battle-scarred veteran, Navy Commander Carlos Sonora, as they begin work on a secret project code named, Jumbo. Their covert assignment: build the world's largest, strongest and most expensive bottle to hold the first atomic weapon. Their hazardous journey takes them to manufacturing plants where friendly "Rosie the Riveter" factory workers and Women's Air Service Pilots (WASPs) are taking the place of men but discrimination still exists. Even if they successfully build Jumbo, they must transport the behemoth to the most desolate desert in New Mexico, the infamous "Jornada del Muerto", (The Journey of Death), where Jumbo will face Gadget, the plutonium device surrounded by 5,000 lbs. of high explosive, that will prove or disprove that an atomic bomb will work and Jumbo will meet its fate. What Irene and Carl can't foresee in their effort to build Jumbo and still find love in wartime is the real danger of enemy agents, insidious sabotage and death from fiery molten steel.

Author : Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of the Chemical Elements written by Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: