Mike Meginnis reviewed Fat Man and Little Boy by Mike Meginnis
I wrote this bad boy.
It was my first novel. I'm not proud of everything about it, but I tried my best.
406 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 2014 by Black Balloon Publishing.
(1 review)
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.
Subjects
- Atomic bomb
- Amerikanisches Englisch
- World War, 1939-1945
- Fiction
Places
- Japan
- Hiroshima-shi