Perpetual Motion |
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| Author:
| Gibson, Graeme |
| Afterword by:
| Cook, Ramsay |
| Series title: | New Canadian Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7710-3462-6 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1997 |
| Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart
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| Imprint: | New Canadian Library |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own,
Perpetual Motion chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of tragic lunacy. First...
More DescriptionSet in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, Perpetual Motion chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of tragic lunacy.
First published in 1982, Perpetual Motion is Graeme Gibson's superb evocation of a time when faith in material progress is still challenged by superstition and a lingering belief in magic. It is an ironic yet compassionate examination of the painful consequences of human folly.