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Cargando... In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novelpor Kathleen Cambor
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. people with vivid character and strong emotions ( ) The novel deals with the Johnstown flood. It's in interesting historical setting and our book club spent some time discussing the class differences (and how / whether they still exist in today's America). It is a love story of sorts, set in the time leading to the Johnstown flood of 1889. A privileged girl comes to love the son of the steel works foreman. But, of course, their relationship is doomed. Some insight into the historical figures of Carnegie, Mellon and Frick. I did not like the epilogue. This is a historical novel about the flood in Johnstown, Penn in 1889. Some of the characters are taken from history, some are invented. The author does a good job of maintaining a sense of foreboding. The characters are all dealing with their relationship to the greater society, and the flood too was caused by the tension between the rich club members, who owned the dam, and the people who lived below it. The author investigates both the social and the natural forces, and does it quite poetically. This wasn't quite as dramatic as I was expecting. But it's worth reading. This is a historical novel about the flood in Johnstown, Penn in 1889. Some of the characters are taken from history, some are invented. The author does a good job of maintaining a sense of foreboding. The characters are all dealing with their relationship to the greater society, and the flood too was caused by the tension between the rich club members, who owned the dam, and the people who lived below it. The author investigates both the social and the natural forces, and does it quite poetically. This wasn't quite as dramatic as I was expecting. But it's worth reading. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
An Elegantly Crafted Love Story Set in Post-Civil War America In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden tells of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in 1889 of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dam. It was a tragedy that cost 2,200 lives, implicated some of the most illustrious financiers of the day - Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon - whose carelessness contributed to the disaster, and irreparably changed the lives of those who survived it. This is the story of these men and of the families who lived in the shadow of the dam: the daughter of the lawyer who filed the charter for an exclusive club on the shore of the artificially created lake; the Quaker steel mill owner who tried to stop the dam's construction; a librarian, escaping to a bustling mountain city from a loveless life in Boston; a young man determined to expose and undermine the greed and carelessness that shaped the last years of the nineteenth century. A cautionary tale for our new century, In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden is a story of youthful promise and devastating loss, of power and its misuse, and of greed and the philanthropy that is too often a guilty by-product. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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