Robbins, Rachel
Sound of a thousand stars a novel The sound of a thousand stars Rachel Robbins. - First edition. - New York, NY Alcove Press 2024 - 313 pages 22 cm
Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.
9781639108961 1639108963
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 --Fiction.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Fiction.
Women physicists--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
World War--1939-1945--Fiction.
Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Fiction.
Official secrets--Fiction.
United States--Politics and government--Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.
Los Alamos (Calif.)--Fiction.
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Sound of a thousand stars a novel The sound of a thousand stars Rachel Robbins. - First edition. - New York, NY Alcove Press 2024 - 313 pages 22 cm
Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert.
9781639108961 1639108963
Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 --Fiction.
Manhattan Project (U.S.)--Fiction.
Women physicists--Fiction.
Jews--Fiction.
World War--1939-1945--Fiction.
Atomic bomb victims--Japan--Fiction.
Official secrets--Fiction.
United States--Politics and government--Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945--Fiction.
Los Alamos (Calif.)--Fiction.
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