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 earthquakeRendered 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 sixmonth odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and runins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel barjust before one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.Edens Clock, the twelfth and final standalone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces.

Binding: Paperback;300 pages; Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 414 g; Dimensions: 188 x 127 x 21

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