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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart: Available Copies
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Seller: Open Books (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $1.49
Shipping: $3.99
TOTAL Cost: $5.48
Spine creased, but binding still sound. Some dog eared pages. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Millet, Lydia
Paperback
ISBN: 9780156031035
Publisher: Mariner Books (edition First Edition) (2006)
Seller: BooksRun (Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $5.63
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $5.63
It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.
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Seller: HPB-Ruby (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $2.74
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $6.49
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Seller: HPB-Diamond (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $2.99
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $6.74
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $7.15
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $7.15
Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $7.15
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TOTAL Cost: $7.15
Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Seller: World of Books Inc (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $7.47
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TOTAL Cost: $7.47
Oppenheimer's first full day at the motel was devoted to television. He located the remote on the bedside table, where it sat beside the enigmatic telephone with its sheet of intricate numeric instructions, and eventually by pressing the button marked power discovered its function. -from OH PURE AND RADIANT HEART In Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, the three dead geniuses who invented the atomic bomb-Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi-mysteriously appear in Sante Fe, New Mexico, in 2003, nearly sixty years after they watched history's first mushroom cloud rise over the New Mexico desert in 1945. One by one, they are discovered by a shy librarian, who takes them in and devotes herself to them. Faced with the evidence of their nuclear legacy, the scientists embark on a global disarmament campaign that takes them from Hiroshima to Nevada to the United Nations. Along the way, they acquire a billionaire pothead benefactor and a growing convoy of RVs carrying groupies, drifters, activists, former Deadheads, New Age freeloaders, and religious fanatics. In this heroically mischievous, sweeping tour de force, Lydia Millet brings us an apocalyptic fable that marries the personal to the political, confronts the longing for immortality with the desire for redemption, and evokes both the beauty and the tragedy of the nuclear sublime.
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Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $8.45
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $8.45
Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Seller: Better World Books (Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $8.45
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $8.45
Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
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Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Millet, Lydia
Hardcover
ISBN: 9781932360851
Publisher: Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. (2005)
Seller: Beaver Bridge Books (Holiday Island, AR, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $9.27
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $9.27
LIBRARY WITHDRAWN with typical library markings. Book is not priced - POSSIBLE BOOK CLUB edition. Book is tight & square. Mylar-protected dust jacket. Text block is clean & unmarked. Shipped padded ina box with tracking number provided on domestic shipping.
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Seller: Zoom Books East (Glendale Heights, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $10.17
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $10.17
Book is in like new condition with minimal signs of wear. Pages are clean and free from notes or highlighting. Dust cover is intact. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.
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Seller: World of Books Inc (Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $10.44
Shipping: Free!
TOTAL Cost: $10.44
Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this "shattering and beautiful" time travel novel (Entertainment Weekly). Oh Pure and Radiant Heart plucks the three scientists who were key to the invention of the atom bomb--Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard and Enrico Fermi--as they watch history's first mushroom cloud rise over the desert on July 16th, 1945 . . . and places them down in modern-day Santa Fe. One by one, the scientists are spotted by a shy librarian who becomes convinced of their authenticity. Entranced, bewildered, overwhelmed by their significance as historical markers on the one hand, and their peculiar personalities on the other, she, to the dismay of her husband, devotes herself to them. Soon the scientists acquire a sugar daddy--a young pothead millionaire from Tokyo who bankrolls them. Heroes to some, lunatics or con artists to others, the scientists finally become messianic religious figureheads to fanatics, who believe Oppenheimer to be the Second Coming. As the ever-growing convoy traverses the country in a fleet of RV's on a pilgrimage to the UN, the scientists wrestle with the legacy of their invention and their growing celebrity, while Ann and her husband struggle with the strain on their marriage, a personal journey married to a history of thermonuclear weapons. "Possesses the nervy irreverence of Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller . . . Can only be described as, well, genius." --Vanity Fair
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Seller: HPB-Diamond (Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $6.73
Shipping: $3.75
TOTAL Cost: $10.48
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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