The Lightning Keeper (P.S.) - Softcover

"Lawrence has created a very American saga." -- Booklist

"The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it."--Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird

"Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion."--Publishers Weekly

"Lawrence has created a very American saga."--Booklist

"Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions ... are as exciting as they are beautiful."--Library Journal (starred review)

Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion. --Publishers Weekly"

Lawrence has created a very American saga. --Booklist"

The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it. --Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird"

Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions are as exciting as they are beautiful. --Library Journal (starred review)"

Arriving in New York in 1914 after fleeing the bloody violence in the Balkans, Toma Pekocevic, a gifted inventor, designs a powerful water turbine that leads to not only a career within General Electric but also a love affair with Harriet Bigelow, the daughter of a powerful New England dynasty that has fallen on hard times. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.