In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden is the second novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.[1]

In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden
AuthorKathleen Cambor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date
2001
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages256 pp
ISBN0-374-16537-8
OCLC44090481
813/.54 21
LC ClassPS3553.A4277 I5 2001
Preceded byThe Book of Mercy 

A historical novel, its plot is based on the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when more than 2,000 people drowned after the collapse of the South Fork Dam. It accurately portrays the historical figures of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, the industrialists Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie, in their cameo roles. The novel features fictional characters, such as Frank Fallon, a steel mill foreman and American Civil War veteran; his son Daniel, a labor organizer; James Talbot, a lawyer hired for the club; and his daughter Nora, an amateur naturalist who believes that the dam, built to provide an Eden for the captains of industry, is likely to fail.[2]

The novel was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2001.

References

  1. "Kathleen Cambor, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2008". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Review: In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden". Publishers Weekly. 1996.


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