Bombshell - A Novel (Paperback)

"Bombshell" is a feminist nuclear thriller set twenty-five years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an alienated young Russian woman born in its shadow undertakes a road trip across the U.S., waging a guerrilla war against the nuclear industry and leaving in her wake a trail of destruction and assassinations. Obsessed with would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, Varyushka Cash recreates her atomic past through escalating violence and her one true goal: an assault on the Indian Point nuclear plant on the bank of the Hudson River. All along she is relentlessly pursued by the CIA, eager to capture Varyushka on charges of domestic terrorism. The cat-and-mouse chase leads to a final showdown in a decimated and irradiated New York, there on the cusp of a frightening new future. The initial draft of "Bombshell" was completed five months before the Fukushima catastrophe, written from the author's morbid suspicion that the twenty-fifth anniversary of catastrophe at Chernobyl, Pripyat, and beyond would be marked by an echo in the present, shadowed by the real threat present in our unguarded and deteriorating nuclear facilities. Bombshell is a combustible and commercial step forward by one of our most creative and intellectual writers today.

General

Imprint:	Soft Skull Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2013
First published:	July 2013
Authors:	James Reich
Dimensions:	209 x 139 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-59376-513-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-59376-513-4
Barcode:	9781593765132

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