The age of perpetual light
Subtitle: stories
By: Josh Weil
Edition: First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780802127013
Subjects: Short stories
Work titles: Short stories
Description: Stories selected from a decade of work that explore themes of progress, the pursuit of knowledge, and humankind's eternal attempt to decrease the darkness in the world. Beginning at the dawn of the past century, in the early days of electrification, and moving into an imagined future in which the world is lit day and night, each tale in The Age of Perpetual Light follows deeply-felt characters through different eras in American history; from a Jewish dry goods peddler who falls in love with an Amish woman while showing her the wonders of an Edison Lamp, to a 1940 farmers' uprising against the unfair practices of a power company, a Serbian immigrant teenage boy in 1990's Vermont desperate to catch a glimpse of an experimental satellite, to a back-to-the-land couple forced to grapple with their daughter's autism during winter's longest night.
Table of contents: title: No flies, no folly --; title: Long bright line --; title: The essential constituent of modern living standards --; title: Angle of reflection --; title: The point of roughness -- ; title: Beautiful ground --; title: The first bad thing --; title: Hello from here.