The siege of Salt Cove
By: Anthony Weller.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
Subjects: Bridges -- Design and construction -- Fiction; Government, Resistance to -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Bridges, Wooden -- Fiction; Older women -- Fiction; Inventors -- Fiction; Secession -- Fiction; Massachusetts -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has ordered Salt Cove to replace its signature wooden bridge with a concrete monstrosity. The authorities are unreasoning and unyielding. The village decides to secede. Jessica Stoddard is a quirky seventy-two-year-old who is determined to keep a record of the event for posterity. She has a passion for the truth, but her account is not entirely reliable, because she also has a passion for the rebellion's ringleader, who is barely half her age." "Toby Auberon is a former lawyer who dropped out of the system. He has returned after years in Rio to perfect his mysterious invention in the solitude of the lighthouse. He is drawn, unwillingly, into the dispute when the bureaucracy switches tactics from bullying to armed occupation."--BOOK JACKET.