The Lightning Keeper Paperback / softback - 2007
by Starling Lawrence
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Sparks fly in Lawrence's blend of romance and historical fiction, set against the struggle to harness electricity in the early 20th century. Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, the author generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion.
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- Title The Lightning Keeper
- Author Starling Lawrence
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2007-06-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9780060825256
- ISBN 9780060825256 / 0060825251
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 6.6 x 1.12 in (20.42 x 16.76 x 2.84 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The Lightning Keeper is a sweeping epic novel of ambition, love, and enterprise in America. It is the story of an unlikely Romeo and Juliet romance at the dawn of the electric age, with the nation balancing on the brink of world war and a scientific revolution.In 1914 Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that have 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 is eventually drawn inside the industrial empire of General Electric, his machine an essential cog in its grand scheme to provide electricity to the entire country. His invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but Toma 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.Deeply evocative and utterly engrossing, The Lightning Keeper is a rich tapestry of technology, romance, and war — an unforgettable and distinctly American saga that establishes Starling Lawrence as one of the most talented writers at work today.
First line
It had begun to snow, and she had been sitting in the car for so long that the snowflakes, much extravagantly grand and varied snowflakes, fixed themselves to the dark green cowling, like butterflies pinned to a board, for the motor was now as cold as she was.
