Harper Perennial
The Lightning Keeper : A Novel
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The Lightning Keeper
Author(s): Starling Lawrence
Review(s):
“The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it.”
“Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion.”
“Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions … are as exciting as they are beautiful.”
“Lawrence has created a very American saga.”
ISBN: 9780060825256
Author(s): Starling Lawrence
This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them. Toma's invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but he is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress.
Review(s):
“The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it.”
“Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion.”
“Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions … are as exciting as they are beautiful.”
“Lawrence has created a very American saga.”
ISBN: 9780060825256