{"product_id":"trinity-9781472154033","title":"Trinity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Brilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to \u003ci\u003eembody\u003c\/i\u003e the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer''s life . . .The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar'' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e, Louisa Hall has crafted an explosive \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[An] \u003cb\u003eelegant \u003c\/b\u003enovel . . . It leaves you with the dazed feeling that trying to understand a person, to really know them, is an impossible task. * The Observer magazine *\u003cbr\u003eHistory, Hall insists, happens on the human scale and the narratives in which we find ourselves caught up often blind us to larger truths. This is \u003cb\u003ean intelligent, serious novel\u003c\/b\u003e saved from ponderousness by \u003cb\u003ean abundance of sharp-edged details and the intensity of its characters need to speak\u003c\/b\u003e * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eLouisa Hall understands the words we don't write can be just as important as the ones we do . . . Few words go to waste in her new book, \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003ea brilliant imagining \u003c\/b\u003eof how the details omitted from one notorious man's story might define him more fully than the broad strokes we already know . . . \u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e sounds a wake-up call to those who have failed to ease the threat of planetary destruction . . . \u003cb\u003eOppenheimer changed course in his own life - and through Hall's imagined reading of his mind, she shows us that we still can too\u003c\/b\u003e * Time *\u003cbr\u003eLouisa Hall has created a splintered and \u003cb\u003eintriguing portrait\u003c\/b\u003e of this brilliant and conflicted man . . . Hall's \u003cb\u003eexplosive fragmentation\u003c\/b\u003e of Oppenheimer's life makes for \u003cb\u003ean original book, a novel of the unseen and finally, the unknowable\u003c\/b\u003e * Erica Wagner, Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTriumphant\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003eCompelling \u003c\/b\u003e. . . With \u003cb\u003ebeautiful specificity and nuance,\u003c\/b\u003e Hall interrogates such major issues as this in scientific discovery and breaching the chasm between public and private selves * Vanity Fair *\u003cbr\u003eLouisa Hall's\u003cb\u003e intelligent, elegant and yet strangely elusive\u003c\/b\u003e novel about the father of the atomic bomb . . . [is]\u003cb\u003e elegant and true\u003c\/b\u003e * Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity\u003c\/i\u003e is an \u003cb\u003eintelligent and sweeping\u003c\/b\u003e account of the characters - some real, some fictional - swirling around the testing of the first atomic bomb. It is also \u003cb\u003ean affecting meditation\u003c\/b\u003e on the ways in which we betray others and, in the process, ourselves. * Karan Mahajan, author of The Association of Small Bombs *\u003cbr\u003eHall \u003cb\u003eexcels at creating distinct characters\u003c\/b\u003e whose voices illuminate their own lives and challenges, as well as the historical period that saw Oppenheimer's fall from grace. Taken together, \u003cb\u003ethey only burnish the endlessly fascinating enigma\u003c\/b\u003e of the flawed genius who became known as the father of the atomic bomb.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLushly written\u003c\/b\u003e, this is an \u003cb\u003eambitious, unsettling\u003c\/b\u003e novel that \u003cb\u003etakes on big issues in a passionate, personal way\u003c\/b\u003e * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrinity \u003c\/i\u003eis a \u003cb\u003edizzying, kaleidoscopic marvel\u003c\/b\u003e of a book, and a \u003cb\u003ebeautiful reflection\u003c\/b\u003e on the impossibility of creating a truly accurate narrative of any person's life * Texas Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003eboldly imagined\u003c\/b\u003e scenario that explores themes of guilt and betrayal. * Choice magazine *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851734696279,"sku":"9781472154033","price":7.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472154033.jpg?v=1710643159","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/trinity-9781472154033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}