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The Lightning Keeper

Starling Lawrence

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English
Black Swan
15 March 2011
Epic American novel of ambition, love and scientific enterprise, set on the brink of the First World War and an electrical revolution

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. Also a gifted inventor, he 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. After he loses Harriet to a wealthy politician, his invention is all he has - but Toma is determined to win her back. The stage is set 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.
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Imprint:   Black Swan
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 127mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   368g
ISBN:   9780552777230
ISBN 10:   0552777234
Pages:   544
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Starling Lawrence is the author of the novel Montenegro and the collection of short stories, Legacies. He is the editor-in-chief and vice chairman of W.W. Norton and divides his time between New York and northwestern Connecticut.

Reviews for The Lightning Keeper

The Lightning Keeper is a big, old-fashioned panoramic feast of a novel ... A marvelous story. * Philadelphia Inquirer * Breathtaking ... His knowledge is woven seamlessly into his story ... An ambitious, wonderful book ... It draws us in and allows us to live briefly, magically, marvelously in the world as it once was. * Chicago Tribune * A subtle and moving novel, an old-fashioned narrative that addresses modern questions of ethnicity and belonging. * LA Times * When The Lightning Keeper releases you from obsessively turning its pages, you'll know that you have read an unforgettable account of lives and experience unique to this country. This is a great novel. -- Harper Lee author of * To Kill A Mockingbird *


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