O Magazine's June Book Reviews
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the June 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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By Lauren Belfer 544 pages; Knopf Lauren Belfer's panoramic new novel is a love story wrapped around a spy story with a pivotal medical breakthrough at its center. A Fierce Radiance begins days after the attack on Pearl Harbor propels the United States into World War II. Claire Shipley, a savvy Life magazine photographer, has been assigned a photo essay on a young father whose life might be saved by the new miracle antibiotic, penicillin...Read more |
