TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kiernan,Stephen P.
TI  - Universe of Two :  A Novel
SN  - 9780062878441
AV  - PS3611.I4457 U55 2020
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Manhattan Project (U.S.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Atomic bomb
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Women musicians
KW  - Music stores
KW  - Redemption
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographical fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the age's greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb. As he performs that work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brenda--unaware of the true nature of Charlie's top-secret task--mistakes as self-doubt. She urges him to set aside his qualms and continue. Once the bombs strike Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the feelings of culpability devastate him and Brenda. At the war's end, Charlie receives a scholarship to pursue a PhD in physics at Stanford--an opportunity he and Brenda hope will allow them a fresh start. But the past proves inescapable. All any of his new colleagues can talk about is the bomb, and what greater atomic weapons might be on the horizon. Haunted by guilt, Charlie and Brenda leave Stanford and decide to dedicate the rest of their lives to making amends for the evil he helped to birth into the world"--
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