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Author Rosner, Elizabeth, author.

Title Electric City : a novel / Elizabeth Rosner.

Publication Info. Berkeley : Counterpoint, [2014]

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  FICTION ROSNER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Fiction  FIC-ROS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-ROSNER    Check Shelf
Description 324 pages ; 24 cm
Summary Exploring the scientific contributions of Thomas Edison and Charles Proteus Steimetz in upstate New York at the confluence of the Hudson River and its tributary the Mohawk--and the fate of the same place in the mid-sixties--this is a "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"--Amazon.com.
Subject Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Fiction.
Steinmetz, Charles Proteus, 1865-1923 -- Fiction.
City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Science -- History -- Fiction.
Technological innovations -- Fiction.
New York (State) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
ISBN 9781619023468 (hardback)
1619023466 (hardback)
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