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"Lawrence has created a very American saga." -- Booklist
"Lawrence has created a very American saga."--Booklist
"The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it."--Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions ... are as exciting as they are beautiful."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion."--Publishers Weekly
The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it. --Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird"
Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion. --Publishers Weekly"
Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions are as exciting as they are beautiful. --Library Journal (starred review)"
Lawrence has created a very American saga. --Booklist"
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"Lawrence has created a very American saga."--Booklist
"The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it."--Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird
"Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions ... are as exciting as they are beautiful."--Library Journal (starred review)
"Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion."--Publishers Weekly
The Lightning Keeper is a great novel, a transcendent and enduring American novel. I loved it. --Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird"
Skillfully intertwining fact and fiction, Lawrence generates an electric history of ideas, kindled by the flames of capital and passion. --Publishers Weekly"
Lawrence blends science and romance into an immensely readable story; his descriptions are as exciting as they are beautiful. --Library Journal (starred review)"
Lawrence has created a very American saga. --Booklist"
Epic American novel of ambition, love and scientific enterprise, set on the brink of the First World War and an electrical revolution
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- ISBN 10 0374187452
- ISBN 13 9780374187453
- RilegaturaHardcover
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