In the electric Eden
Subtitle: stories
By: Nick Arvin.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Description: "From the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant at Coney Island in 1903 to the rekindling relationship of two high school sweethearts in a stolen SUV, each story in Nick Arvin's first collection reveals a world where people struggle against their own shortcomings as time and technology move inexorably forward. Arvin explores how technology shapes the way we interact with one another and how we experience a world governed by it."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: In the electric Eden; title: What they teach you in engineering school; title: Commemorating; title: Electric fence; title: Radio ads; title: Telescope; title: The prototype; title: Two thousand Germans in Frankenmuth; title: Take your child to work; title: Aeronautics.