Fat man and little boy
Subtitle: a novel
By: Mike Meginnis
Publisher: Black Balloon Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9781936787203
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Atomic bomb; Amerikanisches Englisch; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize. In this striking debut novel, the atomic bombs dropped on Japan are personified as Fat Man and Little Boy. This small measure of humanity is a cruelty the bombs must suffer. Given life from death, the brothers' journey is one of surreal and unsettling discovery, transforming these symbols of mass destruction into beacons of longing and hope.
Notes: Winner of the 2013 Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize