Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
Universe of Two
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
12 posts | 7 read | 1 reading | 12 to read
From the critically acclaimed author of The Bakers Secret and The Curiosity comes a novel of conscience, love and redemption Graduating from Harvard at the height of World War II, brilliant mathematician Charlie Fish is assigned to the Manhattan Project. Working with some of the ages greatest scientific minds, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, Charlie is assigned the task of designing and building the detonator of the atomic bomb. As he performs the work Charlie suffers a crisis of conscience, which his wife, Brendaunaware of the true nature of Charlies top-secret taskmistakes for self-doubt. She urges him to set aside his qualms and continue. But once the bombs strike Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Brenda realizes the truth, the feelings of culpability devastate them both. At the wars end, Charlie receives a scholarship to pursue a Ph.D. in physics at Stanfordan opportunity he and Brenda hope will allow them a fresh start. But the past proves inescapable. Haunted by guilt, Charlie and Brenda know that they must do something to make amends for the evil they helped to bring into the world. Based on the real life of Charles B. Fisk, Universe of Two combines riveting historical drama with a poignant love story. Stephen Kiernan has conjured a remarkable account of two people struggling to heal their consciences and find peace in a world forever changed.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
blurb
rsteve388
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

Library Haul. I think I am gonna read Universe of Two next

review
quirkyreader
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image
Pickpick

This story is a massive tear jerker. Here is the link to my gr review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3151566426

blurb
quirkyreader
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

This story is making me cry. So you know it has to be good.

BookBabe Wow. 😮 I think you convinced me. It sounds really intense (and really good!) 2y
Crazeedi Oh wow, another book to add!! 2y
23 likes1 stack add3 comments
blurb
quirkyreader
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

#bookmail. I won this as a goodreads giveaway. Thank you @WilliamMorrowBooks @HarperCollins

Suet624 A #Vermont author. I just noticed he has attached a document on his website: “A document I wrote with the help of about 100 Vermonters, about how a small state can thrive in a time of federal collapse.“ https://www.stephenpkiernan.com/ 3y
21 likes1 comment
review
Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image
Pickpick

Fantastic!! Loved it!!

The final book in my #20BooksofSummer challenge. I've read some incredible books this summer!

24 likes3 stack adds
blurb
Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

This is so good! And what a perfect day to spend reading - intense thunderstorms with thunder rattling the windows and shaking the floors!

MicheleinPhilly Hopefully the thunder is louder than your neighbor! 😉 4y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @MicheleinPhilly 😂😂 yes! Seriously! Hahaha 4y
21 likes1 stack add2 comments
blurb
Penny_LiteraryHoarders
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

Getting started on this chunkster. I would LOVE to be sitting outside and enjoying this beautiful Saturday afternoon, but so sadly we have a highly annoying neighbour that plays her music loudly and seems to sing at the top of her lungs with assistance from a karaoke machine. 🙁😤😡 No amount of complaining to the city will stop her. She is often yelling at other neighbours and squirrels as well. Thank you for listening to my complaint. 😘

Penny_LiteraryHoarders Being trapped inside my own home and unable to enjoy my outdoor patio space is painful. But its not worth the frustration of this neighbour. Unfortunately, her shitty and unneighbourly behavior will last for hours. 😒 4y
MicheleinPhilly Ugh. Bad neighbors are the worst. 4y
MsMelissa OMG. I‘d hate to have a neighbour like that! I can empathize with you, however. Our back neighbours like to blast their music and have parties in their backyards on weekends. Our houses aren‘t far apart and the lots are tiny (typical new subdivision), so they basically play their music for all their neighbors to hear 🙄 4y
Penny_LiteraryHoarders @Book_Fiend_Melissa crappy neighbours suck!! 😝 4y
23 likes5 comments
review
Bookwormjillk
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image
Pickpick

I am terribly late reviewing this ARC I got from LibraryThing, but now that I‘ve finally read it I recommend it if you‘re in the mood for a WWII book. Charlie is a mathematician working in Los Alamos and Brenda moves to be with him and play organ at a local church. I thought it was interesting that Charlie was based on a real person.

MargaretPinardAuthor There‘s a wooooonderful interview between two ww2 authors on A Mighty Blaze‘s FB page, including Kiernan, and it may add a bit more richness to the tapestry, post-read. :) 4y
Bookwormjillk @MargaretPinardAuthor thank you! I‘ll look for that! 4y
55 likes2 stack adds2 comments
blurb
SilversReviews
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

From Stephen P. Kiernan: “The secret behind my new novel, Universe of Two, is that it is based on a real person.”

SEE THE SPOTLIGHT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/y6so3wul

#stephenpkiernan
@williammorrowbooks
@harpercollins
@wunderbookspr

32 likes1 stack add
blurb
Sills
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

Young Charlie Fish, a promising mathematician, embarks on a secret journey -the Manhattan Project. He is studious, dedicated, and gentle in his manner. Sent to Los Alamos, NM leaving the love of his life behind in Chicago. Charlie is kept in the dark about the project to end the war but knows he is playing an integral part. Charlie aka Trigger is engulfed in regret and his part in the atomic bomb devastation-how does a man recover from remorse?

20 likes2 stack adds1 comment
review
ReadingisMyPassion
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image
Pickpick

This book took me completely by surprise. I never imagined that a book, inspired by the life of the man that developed the detonator for the atom bomb, would, or even could, contain such beautiful writing and feelings of such tenderness. My heart really felt as though it would break for Charlie as he struggled with his consciousness for creating a device – the Gadget - that took so many lives.

12 likes1 stack add
blurb
angel1
Universe of Two: A Novel | Stephen P. Kiernan
post image

Just finished this ARC that I won from goodreads. I really enjoyed the book...its release date is 5/20 😊
#UniverseofTwo