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Bloomsbury USA
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 1620405032
EAN: 9781620405031
Kindle: B00GC53AHM
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Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley,
Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago—and arrived in New Mexico
ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope
quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a
rugged military town where everything was a secret,
including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They
lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a
town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of a
project that didn’t exist as far as the public knew. Though
they were strangers, they joined together—adapting to a
landscape as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the
banalities of everyday life and the drama of scientific
discovery. And while the bomb was being invented, babies were born,
friendships were forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos
gradually transformed from an abandoned school on a hill
into a real community: one that was strained by the words
they couldn’t say out loud, the letters they couldn’t send
home, the freedom they didn’t have. But the end of the war
would bring even bigger challenges to the people of Los
Alamos, as the scientists and their families struggled with
the burden of their contribution to the most destructive
force in the history of mankind. The Wives of Los Alamos is a novel that sheds light onto one
of the strangest and most monumental research projects in
modern history. It's a testament to a remarkable group of
women who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the
chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy.
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