

An Atomic Romance
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/27/2005
Categories: Fiction
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Narrator: Mark Bramhall
Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 06/27/2005
Categories: Fiction
Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of a number of works of fiction, including The Girl in the Blue Beret, In Country, An Atomic Romance, and Nancy Culpepper. The groundbreaking Shiloh and Other Stories won the PEN Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN Faulkner Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won two Southern Book Awards and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. Former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, she lives in Kentucky.
Uranium enrichment plant meets cytopathology lab in this well-written novel. The story revolves around Reed's life containing plutonium and nuclear accidents and Julia's life dealing with germs and the possibility (or should I write inevitability) of a pandemic. When their romance is challenged, Ree......more
This was a great story of character(s). I felt like these were REAL people. The prose was excellent – I was involved in lives, the nightmare/dreams, the messy lives, and big “C”. The main character, Reed, is HUGELY flawed but his actions were so realistic, so fatal. Ugh, I hated him and I understood......more
Fantastic, dark wit with passages describing characters who are like asteroids in tight orbits that never quite reach the earth. Reminded me at times of Donald Ray Pollock and Flannery O’Conner.......more
This book had a ton of potential but it ended like a romance novel. Interesting information about radioactive materials. In depth layman information about plutonium and where it's used.......more