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Title The mercury fountain / Eliza Factor.

Imprint

New York : Akashic Books, 2012.

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Location	Call No.	Status
Rocky Hill - Downloadable Materials	EBSCO Ebook	Downloadable
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Description	1 online resource
Note	"A Novel"--Cover.
	"AKB 234"--Spine.
Summary	The novel takes place at the turn of the twentieth century in a remote and beautiful stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert near the border of West Texas and Mexico. Rich with mercury, the desert attracts a visionary north easterner, Owen Scraperton, who settles in the southern wilderness to establish a Utopian community called Pristina. Owen quickly finds in mercury the economic foundation for his new world. The metal's hypnotic beauty and fluidity are perfect emblems for his social theories, and his sincere heart and rich voice attract a heterogeneous mix of followers who join him in disregarding the metal's more harmful qualities.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Texas, West -- History -- Fiction.
	Families -- Fiction.
	FICTION -- General.
	Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
	Texas, West. (OCoLC)fst01222470
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Utopian fiction.
Other Form:	Print version: Factor, Eliza. Mercury fountain. New York : Akashic Books, 2012 9781617750366 (OCoLC)709680959
ISBN	9781617751134 (electronic bk.)
	1617751138 (electronic bk.)

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