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Chargement... The Atomic City Girls: A Novel (original 2018; édition 2018)par Janet Beard (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. While I learned a bit about Oak Ridge, I wouldn’t say this was a can’t-miss novel. The characters were pretty flat, and I feel that it focused too much on the drab love stories than the issues at hand. ( ) Easy and enjoyable read. I enjoyed learning about the work at Oak ridge and the secrecy of creating the atomic bomb while following the lives of several very different characters. I appreciate seeing the difference in the lives between the white and black characters and it helps give a little understanding of how events unfolded to set up future generations activism. I also enjoyed the historical pictures which helped bring even more life into the story. Also I enjoyed that the ending wasn't a stereotypical feel good fairy tale ending but a much more realistic and lifelike outcome for the characters Narrated by Ex Sands one of my favorite narrators. This was a story of women working on the Manhattan Project, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the 1940’s. The story followed two women and two men and their everyday lives and what they went through. This was loosely based on historical facts but the story was good. I enjoyed it and want to read more on the subject. For eighteen-year-old June Walker, the prospect of working at Oak Ridge is a chance to get away from home. She has no idea what she is actually doing at Oak Ridge other than she's helping the war effort. As she starts an affair with a Jewish physicist, Sam Carter, she starts to realize more and more what they are doing there. At the same time, her roommate Cici is trying her hardest to find a rich man and get away from her past life. African- American construction worker Joe Brewer has left his family behind since the job at Oak Ridge pays well, but being away from his family is hard for him. All these people have their own dreams and goals, but life isn't always easy and things can change in a moment. READ THE REST OF THE REVIEW OVER AT FRESH FICTION! I think I mistook this for the non-fiction book of a similar name heard recommended. I can only think the tittle was chosen to facilitate that mistake. As I reflect, I’m most disturbed by the treatment of the character “Shirley.” Why create an intelligent, outspoken, black woman but only let us see her through a male character’s eyes? And that character dislikes and disagrees with her? This book infuriated me. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: "The Atomic City Girls is a fascinating and compelling novel about a little-known piece of WWII history."??Maggie Leffler, international bestselling author of The Secrets of Flight In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked bus, destined for a city that doesn't officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in a matter of months??a town of trailers and segregated houses, 24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained. They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal nothing to outsiders. The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well, while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government's plans, only that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June's search for answers. When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty, patriotism, and war itself Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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