Trinity
Autor Louisa Hallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2019
J. Robert Oppenheimer - the father of the atomic bomb - was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. In Louisa Hall's kaleidoscopic novel seven fictional characters bear witness to his life. From a secret service agent who tailed him in San Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John, as these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives.
In Trinity, Louisa Hall has crafted an explosive story about what it means to truly know someone, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.
'A striking portrait of a man who fathered the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and then went on to embrace liberal causes, lie about love affairs and lobby against nuclear proliferation' Mail on Sunday
'A splintered and intriguing portrait' Erica Wagner, Financial Times
'A brilliant imagining of how the details omitted from one notorious man's story might define him more fully than the broad strokes we already know . . . Trinity sounds a wake-up call' Time
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472154033
ISBN-10: 1472154037
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
ISBN-10: 1472154037
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Little Brown Book Group
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Notă biografică
Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia. After graduating from Harvard, she played squash professionally while finishing her premedical coursework and working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital. She holds a PhDin literature from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Carriage House and Speak and lives in New York.
Descriere
In the vein of Coetzee's Summertime or W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Trinity revisits the life of scientist Robert Oppenheimer as narrated by seven fictional characters who claim to have known him.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb that he helped create, before ultimately lobbying against nuclear proliferation.
Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of seven fictional characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives.
In this stunning, elliptical novel, Louisa Hall has crafted a breathtaking and explosive story about public and private tragedy, about power and guilt, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.
Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of seven fictional characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncovering deep and often unsettling truths about their own lives.
In this stunning, elliptical novel, Louisa Hall has crafted a breathtaking and explosive story about public and private tragedy, about power and guilt, and about the secrets we keep from the world and from ourselves.
Recenzii
“Brilliant… Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer’s life…. The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar.” — New York Times Book Review
“Triumphant.... Each of the anecdotes functions as a compelling story in its own right, and only becomes more powerful when taken together as a complete narrative. With beautiful specificity and nuance, Hall interrogates such major issues as ethics in scientific discovery and breaching the chasm between public and private selves.” — Vanity Fair
“[Hall has] earned acclaim for her ability to wield language with unusual precision.... Trinity [is] a brilliant imagining of how the details omitted from one notorious man’s story might define him more fully than the broad strokes we already know....Trinity sounds a wake-up call.” — Time
“A startling novel that asks how well we can ever really know anyone else, no matter how much we scrutinize them.... Trinity is a dizzying, kaleidoscopic marvel of a book, and a beautiful reflection on the impossibility of creating a truly accurate narrative of any person’s life.” — Texas Observer
“Intelligent, elegant.... [Hall tells] his story through the eyes of seven fictional characters with whom [Oppenheimer] comes into tangential contact.... The emotional weight of their sections lies in their own hurts and betrayals, their own flailing attempts to understand how, precisely, their own lives have somehow come to this.” — Washington Post
“A narrative exploration of the gap between public and private selves, as the novel makes plain that people are unreliable, and that betraying others is inextricably linked with betraying ourselves.... Hall’s book ambitiously takes on far-reaching issues at Los Alamos in a passionate, personal way.” — Santa Fe New Mexican
“Using real events to frame the narrative, Hall creates visceral vignettes using science, history, and biography to create three-dimensional characters pouring forth their own stories.... Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Ingeniously structured.... [Hall] excels at creating distinct characters whose voices illuminate their own lives and challenges, as well as the historical period that saw Oppenheimer’s fall from grace.” — Publishers Weekly
“[Hall] explores themes of guilt and betrayal as well as the fallout from lies and self-delusion—in the process bringing Oppenheimer, an often aloof, conflicted man, to vivid life.… Lushly written, this is an ambitious, unsettling novel that takes on big issues in a passionate, personal way.” — Kirkus Reviews
“With war, McCarthyism, and nuclear proliferation as backdrop, Hall’s observers paint a picture of not just one man but of humanity.... Each narrator has a unique and convincing voice in this compelling novel.” — Booklist
“Louisa Hall’s Trinity is an intelligent and sweeping account of the characters--some real, some fictional--swirling around the testing of the first atomic bomb. It is also an affecting meditation on the ways in which we betray others and, in the process, ourselves.” — Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs
“[Hall] employs an ingenious and creative tactic to paint an image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”.... In this staggeringly beautiful novel, he is fragmented, shown only through the eyes of people who are all struggling with their own existences.... Trinity is a masterpiece.” — BookPage
“Triumphant.... Each of the anecdotes functions as a compelling story in its own right, and only becomes more powerful when taken together as a complete narrative. With beautiful specificity and nuance, Hall interrogates such major issues as ethics in scientific discovery and breaching the chasm between public and private selves.” — Vanity Fair
“[Hall has] earned acclaim for her ability to wield language with unusual precision.... Trinity [is] a brilliant imagining of how the details omitted from one notorious man’s story might define him more fully than the broad strokes we already know....Trinity sounds a wake-up call.” — Time
“A startling novel that asks how well we can ever really know anyone else, no matter how much we scrutinize them.... Trinity is a dizzying, kaleidoscopic marvel of a book, and a beautiful reflection on the impossibility of creating a truly accurate narrative of any person’s life.” — Texas Observer
“Intelligent, elegant.... [Hall tells] his story through the eyes of seven fictional characters with whom [Oppenheimer] comes into tangential contact.... The emotional weight of their sections lies in their own hurts and betrayals, their own flailing attempts to understand how, precisely, their own lives have somehow come to this.” — Washington Post
“A narrative exploration of the gap between public and private selves, as the novel makes plain that people are unreliable, and that betraying others is inextricably linked with betraying ourselves.... Hall’s book ambitiously takes on far-reaching issues at Los Alamos in a passionate, personal way.” — Santa Fe New Mexican
“Using real events to frame the narrative, Hall creates visceral vignettes using science, history, and biography to create three-dimensional characters pouring forth their own stories.... Highly recommended.” — Library Journal (starred review)
“Ingeniously structured.... [Hall] excels at creating distinct characters whose voices illuminate their own lives and challenges, as well as the historical period that saw Oppenheimer’s fall from grace.” — Publishers Weekly
“[Hall] explores themes of guilt and betrayal as well as the fallout from lies and self-delusion—in the process bringing Oppenheimer, an often aloof, conflicted man, to vivid life.… Lushly written, this is an ambitious, unsettling novel that takes on big issues in a passionate, personal way.” — Kirkus Reviews
“With war, McCarthyism, and nuclear proliferation as backdrop, Hall’s observers paint a picture of not just one man but of humanity.... Each narrator has a unique and convincing voice in this compelling novel.” — Booklist
“Louisa Hall’s Trinity is an intelligent and sweeping account of the characters--some real, some fictional--swirling around the testing of the first atomic bomb. It is also an affecting meditation on the ways in which we betray others and, in the process, ourselves.” — Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs
“[Hall] employs an ingenious and creative tactic to paint an image of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb”.... In this staggeringly beautiful novel, he is fragmented, shown only through the eyes of people who are all struggling with their own existences.... Trinity is a masterpiece.” — BookPage