Perpetual Motion
- ISBN-10
- 0771093993
- ISBN-13
- 9780771093999
- Series
- Perpetual Motion
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 281
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- New Canadian Library
- Author
- Graeme Gibson
Description
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 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. From the Hardcover edition.
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