Eden's Clock

Eden's Clock

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Jul 1, 2025 · الإنجليزية · غلاف ورقي (304 صفحات)
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تنسيق غلاف ورقي
صفحات 304
لغة الإنجليزية
منشور Jul 1, 2025
الناشر Bellevue Literary Press
رقم ISBN-10 1954276389
رقم ISBN-13 9781954276383

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A disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

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.

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