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New Press
June 2011
On Sale: May 31, 2011
144 pages
ISBN: 1595586490
EAN: 9781595586490
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Fiction Family Life
Drawn from the life of Nikola Tesla, one of the greatest
inventors of his time,
Lightning is a captivating tale of one man’s curious
fascination with the marvels of science. Hailed by the Washington Post as “the most distinctive voice
of his generation,” Echenoz traces the notable career of
Gregor, a precocious young engineer from Eastern Europe, who
travels across the Atlantic at the age of twenty-eight to
work alongside Thomas Edison, with whom he later holds a
long-lasting rivalry. After his discovery of alternating
current, Gregor quickly begins to astound the world with his
other brilliant inventions, including everything from radio,
radar, and wireless communication to cellular technology,
remote control, and the electron microscope. Echenoz gradually reveals the eccentric inner world of a
solitary man who holds
a rare gift for imagining devices well before they come into
existence. Gregor is a recluse—an odd and enigmatic
intellect who avoids women and instead prefers spending
hours a day courting pigeons in Central Park. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Echenoz once
again demonstrates
his astonishing abilities as a prose stylist as he vividly
captures the life of an isolated genius. A beautifully
crafted portrait of a man who prefers the company of
lightning in the Colorado desert to that of other human
beings, Lightning is a dazzling new work from one of the
world’s leading contemporary authors.
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