The Lightning Keeper - A Novel

This is the story of an unlikely love at the dawn of the electric age in America. In 1914, Toma Pekocevic is a penniless immigrant in New York recently escaped from the bloody politics of the Balkans that has claimed most of his family. He is also a gifted inventor who designs a revolutionary water turbine while working with Harriet Bigelow, scion of a proud Connecticut iron-making dynasty now fallen on hard times. Their attraction is immediate and overwhelming, but every circumstance is against them. Toma''s invention is all he has after losing Harriet to a wealthy politician, but he is determined to win her back, setting the stage for a confrontation that could change not only his life but the course of scientific progress.

About the author

Starling Lawrence is the editor in chief and vice chairman of W.W. Norton & Company. He is the author of the novel Montenegro and the story collection Legacies. He lives in New York City and northwestern Connecticut.

Product details

• Authors: Starling Lawrence
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2007
• EAN: 9780060825256
• ISBN: 978-0-06-082525-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Medieval, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Renaissance