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Fat Man and Little Boy

✍ Scribed by Meginnis, Mike

Book ID
108245424
Publisher
Black Balloon Publishing
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
272 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781936787210

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✦ Synopsis

Two bombs over Japan. Two shells. One called Little Boy, one called Fat Man. Three days apart. The one implicit in the other. Brothers.
Winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize. In this striking debut novel, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are personified as Fat Man and Little Boy. This small measure of humanity is a cruelty the bombs must suffer. Given life from death, the brothers' journey is one of surreal and unsettling discovery, transforming these symbols of mass destruction into beacons of longing and hope.
β€œ[An] imaginative debut. . . Meginnis' story is both surprising and incisive." - Publishers Weekly
Named one of β€œthe year's most impressive debut novelists" by the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival
"In his inventive and fabulist debut novel Fat Man and Little Boy Mike Meginnis lends a surprisingly human dimension to the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II." - Largehearted...

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