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Description for Radiance
Paperback. * A riveting first novel that draws us deeply into the worlds of two women living in the shadow of the atom bomb - and into the zeitgeist of an America appalled and entranced by it own destructive power Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
Keiko steps on to a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of the news photographers' cameras. An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to be the first Hiroshima Maiden, liberal America's new poster girl, brought to the States to receive sponsored treatment for her radiation scars. Radiance is a mesmerising novel about guilt and intimacy set against the backdrop of an America both appalled and entranced by its own destructive power. ... Read more
Keiko steps on to a New York airstrip in March 1952, turning one horribly scarred cheek away from the pop and flare of the news photographers' cameras. An eighteen-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and killed the people she loved, Keiko has been chosen from hundreds to be the first Hiroshima Maiden, liberal America's new poster girl, brought to the States to receive sponsored treatment for her radiation scars. Radiance is a mesmerising novel about guilt and intimacy set against the backdrop of an America both appalled and entranced by its own destructive power. ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844080182
SKU
KLN0016744
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Shaena Lambert
Shaena Lambert is Canadian (once taught by Margaret Atwood) and lives in Vancouver.
Reviews for Radiance
FT MAGAZINE
'Her prose is so clean, her observation so translucent, her touch so light, affectionate and humorous, that all her characters thrive'
'Lambert...skilfully threads her character
emotions and relationships with a brilliantly rendered historical background of McCarthyism and idealistic internationalism'
'...is an absorbing debut which exquisitely locates unsentimental emotional histories in an ... Read more
'Her prose is so clean, her observation so translucent, her touch so light, affectionate and humorous, that all her characters thrive'
'Lambert...skilfully threads her character
emotions and relationships with a brilliantly rendered historical background of McCarthyism and idealistic internationalism'
'...is an absorbing debut which exquisitely locates unsentimental emotional histories in an ... Read more