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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
January 2010
On Sale: December 31, 2009
336 pages
ISBN: 0399155600
EAN: 9780399155604
Hardcover
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An incredibly original, intelligent novel-a love story set
against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age,
featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan. After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques
dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to
revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The
photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter
Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York
City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first
subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri-
Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose
memories appear to come from another world. They meet
seemingly by chance, and initially Peter dismisses her as
crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping
intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne's fantastic
story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that
she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable:
the key to traveling through time? Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of
the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves
wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the
unfolding of time itself.
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