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Eden's Clock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lock, Norman.
- Series:
- The American Novels Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Veterans--Fiction.
- Veterans.
- Clock and watch makers--Fiction.
- Clock and watch makers.
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906--Fiction.
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
- United States--History--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Bellevue Literary Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Rendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist and resumes his vocation as a clocksmith. Bereft after she dies in a freak accident, he accepts a commission to repair the enormous clock on the San Francisco Embarcadero, but the routine railway journey becomes a six-month odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and run-ins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel bar--just before the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. Eden's Clock, the twelfth and final stand-alone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-954276-39-7
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