Bibliograph

The lightning keeper, a novel, Starling Lawrence

Type

Label

The lightning keeper, a novel, Starling Lawrence

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The lightning keeper

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Starling Lawrence

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

Classification