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The Longest Night

Tekijä: Andria Williams

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up
In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the countrys first nuclear reactorsan assignment that seems full of opportunity.
Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger. Worse, his superiors set out to cover up the problem rather than fix it. Paul cant bring himself to tell Nat the truth, but his lies only widen a growing gulf between them.
Lonely and restless, Nat is having trouble adjusting to their new life. She struggles to fit into her role as a housewife and longs for a real friend. When she meets a rancher, Esrom, she finds herself drawn to him, comforted by his kindness and company. But as rumors spread, the secrets between Nat and Paul build and threaten to reach a breaking point.
Based on a true story of the only fatal nuclear accident to occur in America, The Longest Night is a deeply moving novel that explores the intricate makeup of a marriage, the shifting nature of trust, and the ways we try to protect the ones we love.
Praise for The Longest Night
[A] stunning debut.Entertainment Weekly
 
[A] smart and detailed portrait of a dissolving postwar marriage . . . will remind many readers of Richard Yatess Revolutionary Road.San Francisco Chronicle
 
[Andria] Williamss quietly confident style is without swagger or gimmick. . . . What emerges most powerfully from The Longest Night is a kind of quiet wonder at the exquisite intricacy, but astonishing durability, of familial love.Los Angeles Review of Books
Think Army Wives meets Serial meets your perfect long weekend read. About an army base with a lot of love triangles, and a cover-up.theSkimm
The tension builds heavily with each page.InStyle

Scintillating . . . A smoldering, altogether impressive debut that probes the social and emotional strains on military families in a fresh and insightful way.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
[A] luminous debut . . . Williams expertly builds tension between Paul and Nat as the story progresses towards the inevitable nuclear tragedy in this utterly absorbing and richly rewarding novel.Booklist (starred review)

Andria Williamss debut is an intimately detailed portrait of love, trust, and guilt in a townand an eraclouded with secrets.Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You
A smart and compassionate novel that offers as many fresh insights into marriage and intimacy as it does about American nuclear history. Andria Williams is a terrific writerclear-eyed and empatheticand this is a fantastic debut.Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans

Its hard to believe The Longest Night is Andria Williamss debut novel. Her command of language, character and plotthe three essential ingredients for a riveting readis extraordinary.David Abrams, author of Fobbit.
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Näyttää 1-5 (yhteensä 9) (seuraava | näytä kaikki)
A well-told fictionalized story based on an actual tragic event at one of America's earliest nuclear reactors, located in then-small, sleepy Idaho Falls, Idaho. Seemingly minor (at first) glitches spiral out-of-control with disastrous results in a tale of self-serving sneaky cover-ups, mismanagement and unintended consequences. ( )
  ChetBowers | Mar 10, 2021 |
Based on a true story about the only fatal nuclear accident in the US. Paul and Nat move to Idaho Falls. He is in the military and will work on one of the country's 1st nuclear reactors. Paul soon discovers the reactor is compromised but his supervisors cover up the problem. He has a major blow out with his supervisor and is sent to the Arctic Circle for 6 months. While he's gone, Nat has a friendship with a local man, Esrom. Rumors start to fly with the supervisor turning the screws on Paul. When Paul returns he takes off after arguing with Nat. He ends up back towards the reactor and discovers it has had a meltdown, trapping his buddies inside. He attempts to rescue them and becomes contaminated. Ironically, Esrom is a firefighter who is also contaminated at the scene. They end up at the same decontamination center. Esrom is released before Paul and Paul enlists him to take his family out of the area. Nat send the girls with Esrom and rescues Paul from the decon center. They end up reconciling, he leaves the army and they relocate to a private reactor site in Illinois. ( )
  BByrnes | Feb 25, 2019 |
I can hardly believe this is a debut novel. I love this book so much. First of all, the writing is perfection. The characters are wonderfully flawed, and the plot is a page-turner. She took a true story about a nuclear accident, and fictionalized it...and it was glorious. I cannot recommend this book enough. I can't wait for Williams to write more, because I will eat it up. ( )
  tntbeckyford | Feb 16, 2019 |
Book Flap: “Based on a true story of the only fatal nuclear accident to occur in America, The Longest Night is a deeply moving novel that explores the intricate makeup of a marriage, the shifting nature of trust, and the ways we try to protect the ones we love.”

Paul & Nat Collier, mid-twenties, two kids, 1960 Idaho Falls Idaho

I didn't think it was a spectacular book but this incident is one every North American should be familiar with, so it's worth reading. ( )
  ParadisePorch | Oct 2, 2018 |
4 enthusiastic stars for The Longest Night. This hit most of the things I like in "contemporary" historical fiction. The Colliers could definitely be the Wheeler's 2.0 ([b:Revolutionary Road|48328|Revolutionary Road|Richard Yates|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1353721885s/48328.jpg|1235136] by Richard Yates) kicking off the 60s. There's angst, aspiration, desperation and flirtation with ruination on display which made for overall, an engrossing read.

I won't spoil here, but I will say that Nat and Paul's frustrations and mistakes as a couple and individuals were well drawn and I wanted very much to know how or if they would work things out in the end. Paul, with his idealized and frankly, childish view of Nat as it relates to his idea of goodness had an undercurrent of malice that bubbled to the surface a couple times. It wasn't pretty. While I found Nat's feelings for Esrom quite a bit selfish on her part and cruel to both Paul & Esrom, it felt true. I still hoped for good ends for them all and Nat especially, had a good one.

Esrom, our local cowboy/volunteer fireman was too good to be a true. Save his crush on Nat, he didn't have anything that could much be construed as a flaw let alone an actual personality. He's just good. Full stop. On the other side of the street holding the flag for Big Bad's are Mitch and Jeannie Richards (Mitch is Paul's oft drunk and completely derelict of duty Master Sergeant at the reactor site). They have it all really, cravenness, cruelty and are proof enough that opposites don't always attract as these two bullies found one another and have reigned a pain campaign on others and each other for nigh on 20 years. Jeannie is used to good effect in this sketch of life in a claustrophobic community and all the gossipy perils therein. I truly wished for some sort of comeuppance for her given what's revealed about her daughter. There was enough to dislike Mitch without a truly terrifying and most sinister scene with two Native women where one (Rose) is tied to the top of a car by him. The whole thing was disturbing and went quite the way to making Richards wholly irredeemable for me.

I'd not heard of the reactor accident at Idaho Falls before reading this book and I much appreciated the bits throughout that explained some of the details of the reactor and its workings. Mostly though, I found the relationships of the people in this story an engaging way of connecting to it. Andria Williams definitely has a way with imagery and some of her passages will stay with me. Chiefly, Esrom's mention of the two buck's with locked antlers who, because they couldn't or wouldn't work together worked at cross purposes to the point of their mutual demise. It felt like a metaphor for failed relationships. Well done.

Definitely recommended and if this is a top read for book clubs, I'll definitely understand why. ( )
  anissaannalise | Feb 28, 2018 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:A scintillating debut novel about a young couple whose marriage is tested when they move to an army base rife with love triangles, life-or-death conflicts, and a dramatic cover-up
In 1959, Nat Collier moves with her husband, Paul, and their two young daughters to Idaho Falls, a remote military town. An Army Specialist, Paul is stationed there to help oversee one of the countrys first nuclear reactorsan assignment that seems full of opportunity.
Then, on his rounds, Paul discovers that the reactor is compromised, placing his family and the entire community in danger. Worse, his superiors set out to cover up the problem rather than fix it. Paul cant bring himself to tell Nat the truth, but his lies only widen a growing gulf between them.
Lonely and restless, Nat is having trouble adjusting to their new life. She struggles to fit into her role as a housewife and longs for a real friend. When she meets a rancher, Esrom, she finds herself drawn to him, comforted by his kindness and company. But as rumors spread, the secrets between Nat and Paul build and threaten to reach a breaking point.
Based on a true story of the only fatal nuclear accident to occur in America, The Longest Night is a deeply moving novel that explores the intricate makeup of a marriage, the shifting nature of trust, and the ways we try to protect the ones we love.
Praise for The Longest Night
[A] stunning debut.Entertainment Weekly
 
[A] smart and detailed portrait of a dissolving postwar marriage . . . will remind many readers of Richard Yatess Revolutionary Road.San Francisco Chronicle
 
[Andria] Williamss quietly confident style is without swagger or gimmick. . . . What emerges most powerfully from The Longest Night is a kind of quiet wonder at the exquisite intricacy, but astonishing durability, of familial love.Los Angeles Review of Books
Think Army Wives meets Serial meets your perfect long weekend read. About an army base with a lot of love triangles, and a cover-up.theSkimm
The tension builds heavily with each page.InStyle

Scintillating . . . A smoldering, altogether impressive debut that probes the social and emotional strains on military families in a fresh and insightful way.Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
[A] luminous debut . . . Williams expertly builds tension between Paul and Nat as the story progresses towards the inevitable nuclear tragedy in this utterly absorbing and richly rewarding novel.Booklist (starred review)

Andria Williamss debut is an intimately detailed portrait of love, trust, and guilt in a townand an eraclouded with secrets.Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You
A smart and compassionate novel that offers as many fresh insights into marriage and intimacy as it does about American nuclear history. Andria Williams is a terrific writerclear-eyed and empatheticand this is a fantastic debut.Molly Antopol, author of The UnAmericans

Its hard to believe The Longest Night is Andria Williamss debut novel. Her command of language, character and plotthe three essential ingredients for a riveting readis extraordinary.David Abrams, author of Fobbit.

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