The Washington Post, July 26th, 1998
MRS. EINSTEIN By Anna McGrail Norton. 333 pp. $24.95 Reviewed by Jay Parini, a poet and novelist who teaches at Middlebury College. His most recent book is "House of Days," a collection of poems. Imagine a novel that contains the following: "We had worked out that only one form of the metal -- Uranium-235 -- was going to be capable of sustaining a chain reaction. Only the U-235 nuclei were easily split, but they formed only one part in 300 of the metal. The U-238 nuclei, which formed the overwhelming bulk of the uranium, usually just absorbed anything that hit them. That was one of the reaso...
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