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But this offers only the barest idea of Belfer's complex grid. In 500 fast pages, she creates a fascinating, disquieting world in which nothing is what it seems. As Louisa battles against her instinct for self-preservation, her past--particularly a vile encounter with the corpulent Grover Cleveland--threatens to undermine her carefully created persona and loose her greatest secret. Looking back on the events of 1901 from the safety (and disappointment) of 1909, Louisa is the most astringent and intriguing of narrators. To Lauren Belfer's endless credit, City of Light is panoramic, subtle, and very physical. In her first novel, she makes us feel the rush of water, the thrill of light, the snap, crackle, and pop of social tension, and--alas for Louisa--the despair of tragic inevitability. --Sophie Atherton
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 581 pages. Text tannedLouisa Barrett, the headmistress of a p restigious girls school in Buffalo in 1901 is a forward-looking, independent young woman. But the secret of her illegitimate daugh ter - which connects her to the highest echelons of US government - continually underlines the fragility of her respected position within the city s patriarchal society, and overshadows her buddi ng relationship with two suitors. Both are involved in the clash between capitalists and conservationists over use of the Niagara Falls to generate electricity, which turns ugly when two key figu res in the hydroelectric business drown in separate incidents. In exorably, Louisa is drawn into the deadly brew, which comes to a head in startling, dramatic and moving climax. With fascinating p eriod detail and an unerring, richly complex recreation of an ent ire society, City of Light is a superb, scintillating debut. Seller Inventory # 2389a
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 581 pages. Louisa Barrett, the headmistress of a prestigious girls school in Buffalo in 1901 is a forward-looking, independent young woman. But the secret of her illegitimate daughter - which connects her to the highest echelons of US government - continua lly underlines the fragility of her respected position within the city s patriarchal society, and overshadows her budding relation ship with two suitors. Both are involved in the clash between cap italists and conservationists over use of the Niagara Falls to ge nerate electricity, which turns ugly when two key figures in the hydroelectric business drown in separate incidents. Inexorably, L ouisa is drawn into the deadly brew, which comes to a head in sta rtling, dramatic and moving climax. With fascinating period detai l and an unerring, richly complex recreation of an entire society , City of Light is a superb, scintillating debut. Seller Inventory # 2068u
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