The Nuclear Age
- ISBN-10
- 0140259104
- ISBN-13
- 9780140259100
- Series
- The Nuclear Age
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Tim O'Brien
Description
From Library Journal : Brilliant nuclear detonations and rising silver Titans have plagued William's dreams since his childhood during the Cuban missile crisis, when he fashioned a fallout shelter from the family ping-pong table. Thirty years later his fear has mushroomed into blinding paranoia, and when his wife announces she is leaving, he laces a hole in the backyard with dynamite, places her in it, and prepares to blow her up.
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