Universe of Two (Kiernan Stephen P.)(Paperback)

StephenKiernan has pulled off the nearly impossible...The most tender, terrifying,relevant book youll read this year. Jenna Blum,NewYork Timesbestselling author ofThose Who Save UsandTheLost FamilyFrom the critically acclaimed author of The Bakers Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love, and redemptiona fascinating fictionalized account of the life of Charlie Fisk, a gifted mathematician who was drafted into Manhattan Project and ordered against his morals to build the detonator for the atomic bomb. With his musician wife, he spends his postwar life seeking redemptionand they find it together.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 ages 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, Brendaunaware of the true nature of Charlies top-secret taskmistakes 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 wars end, Charlie receives a scholarship to pursue a PhD in physics at Stanfordan opportunity he and Brenda hope will allow them a fresh start. But the past proves inescapable. All any of his new colleagues can talk ab
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