ISBN: 9781619023468 - electric city: a novel (12 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: FINE. First printing. Novel set in 1917 and in 1965 in the town at the confluence of the Hudson and the Mohawk Rivers in upstate New York - a town which earned the nickname of Electric City when Thomas Edison moved his machine works there in 1892. SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 322 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spanning two generations and nearly half a century, the stories of a genius immigrant mathematician, a coming-of-age daughter of refugees, and the indigenous Mohawk people whose land became the birthplace of modern electricity are woven together to create an epic American novel about ingenuity, displacement, and the cost of progressUpstate New York, at the confluence of the great Hudson River and its mighty tributary the Mohawk from this stunning landscape came the creation of a new world of science. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here and in 1892, it became the headquarters of a major manufacturing company, giving the town its nickname: Electric City.The peak of Autumn, 1919: The pull of scientific discovery brings Charles Proteus Steimetz, a brilliant mathematician and recent arrival from Ellis Island, to town. His ability to capture lightning in a bottle earns him the title 'Wizard of Electric City.' Barely four feet tall with a deeply curving spine, Steinmetz's physical deformity belies his great intellect. Allied with his Mohawk friend Joseph Longboat and his adopted elevenyearold granddaughter Midget, the advancements he makes in Electric City will, quite simply, change the world.The peak of Autumn, 1965: Sophie Levine, the daughter of a company man, one of the many scientists working at The Company, whose electric logo can be seen from everywhere in town. Her family escaped Europe just before World War II, leaving behind a wake of annihilation and persecution. Ensconced in Electric City, Sophie is coming of age just as the town is gasping its last breaths. The town, and America as a whole, is on the cusp of great instability: blackouts, social unrest over Vietnam, and soon the advent of the seventies. Into her orbit drifts Henry Van Curler, the favored son of one of Electric City's founding Dutch families, as well as Martin Longboat, grandson of Joseph Longboat. This new generation of Electric City will face both the history of their town and their own uncertain future, struggling to bridge the gap between the old world and the new.Electric City is a vital, pulsing, epic novel of America, of its great scientific ingenuity and its emotional ambition; one that frames the birth and evolution of its towns against the struggles of its indigenous tribes, the immigrant experience, a country divided, and the technological advancements that ushered in the modern world.…

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnElizabeth Rosner is the author of three novels and a poetry collection. The Speed of Light was translated into nine languages and won several awards in the US and in Europe, including being shortlisted for the prestigious .