Elizabeth Rosner - Electric City

Elizabeth Rosner pulls double-duty with a new poetry collection/memoir and a new novel.

Ensconced in Electric City, Sophie is coming of age just as the town is gasping its last breaths. The town, and America as a whole, is on the cusp of great instability: blackouts, social unrest over Vietnam, and soon the advent of the seventies. Into her orbit drifts Henry Van Curler, the favored son of one of Electric City's founding Dutch families, as well as Martin Longboat, grandson of Joseph Longboat. This new generation of Electric City will face both the history of their town and their own uncertain future, struggling to bridge the gap between the old world and the new. Electric City is a vital, pulsing, epic novel of America, of its great scientific ingenuity and its emotional ambition; one that frames the birth and evolution of its towns against the struggles of its indigenous tribes, the immigrant experience, a country divided, and the technological advancements that ushered in the modern world

Composed over a period of some twenty years, the poetry collection Gravity is Rosner’s profoundly searching account of her experience as the daughter of Holocaust survivors. In these direct and revealing pages, Rosner traces the earliest remembered resonances of her parents’ past and her own dawning awareness of the war history that colored her family home during her youth in Schenectady, New York.

Elizabeth Rosner is the author of The Speed of Light and Blue Nude.

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ISBN: 9781619023468
Published: Counterpoint - October 14th, 2014

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By Elizabeth Rosner, Lola Fraknoi (Illustrator)
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ISBN: 9780989302333
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Published: Atelier26 Books - October 7th, 2014