Published: Feb. 07, 2011
Words: 89839 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

It's 1939, the USA is on the eve of leaving its sleepy childhood behind forever, and the world's last renaissance man has dragged his dissipated self back home to confront the tinpot gods who would rise to power by giving farmers alternating current. "Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a comic requiem for the lost potential of the American Century."

Extended description

It's 1939, the USA is on the eve of leaving its sleepy childhood behind forever, and the world's last renaissance man has dragged his dissipated self back home to confront the tinpot gods who would rise to power by giving farmers alternating current.

"A love letter to the twentieth century. While others are splashing in puddles of their own self-pity, Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a comic requiem for the lost potential of the American Century."

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hemingway, romance, love, drama, comedy, humor, river, rich, rural, america, picaresque, oklahoma, expatriate, 1939, brooks brothers, theosophist, electrification, panama hat, woody guthrie, verdegris

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Review by: Tony Bishop on Nov. 23, 2011 :
A love letter to the twentieth century. While other are splashing in puddles of their own self-pity, Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a requiem for the lost potential of the American Century.
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