The blind light: a novel
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Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date:
[2020]
Edition:
First American edition
Language:
English
Description
"A multigenerational story about two families living in the shadow of nuclear apocalypse. The year is 1959. Two young soldiers, Drummond and Carter, one working-class, the other privileged, form an intense and unlikely friendship at "Doomtown", a training center that simulates the aftermath of an atomic strike. Years later, the men watch the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in horror. Carter, now a high-ranking British government official, offers Drummond a way to save himself and his family in the event of a nuclear strike. Their pact, kept secret, will have devastating consequences for the very lives they seek to protect. Spanning decades, from the 1950s to the present, this ambitious, original novel offers a nuanced and absorbing portrait of friendship and rivalry that explores class divisions and the psychological legacy of the nuclear age"--
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9781324006251
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Historical fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
Social classes -- Fiction
Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Historical fiction
Male friendship -- Fiction
Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
Social classes -- Fiction
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Social classes
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