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A review by squidbag
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
3.0
Millet's book is a journey which is sometimes a slog, and a dark and brooding ridiculous comedy of a book that will leave you cold and sad and hopeful and determined to make the best of it. It is also a history lesson of a love affair, that of America's passionate wooing of nuclear weaponry. Interspersed with facts about nuclear weapons development and featuring Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard as protagonists, this book is not really fun, not at all, but it is, ultimately, worth it.
Two additional things: the book earns points from me at least for being rampantly anti-authoritarian and for reinforcing the idea that getting religion involved in a thing too heavily ruins everything, AND, this quote: "What is it in me that delivers the world into the hands of my enemies?"
Two additional things: the book earns points from me at least for being rampantly anti-authoritarian and for reinforcing the idea that getting religion involved in a thing too heavily ruins everything, AND, this quote: "What is it in me that delivers the world into the hands of my enemies?"