A peep into the 20th century - Hardcover
A National Book Award nominee, this novel is about the first electrical execution in 1890 and the war between Edison and Westinghouse for the soul of electricity's first deliberate victim.
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Christopher Davis is the author of 10 novels, two books of nonfiction, a children's book, two plays, and numerous essays. His novel A Peep Into The 20th Century was a National Book Award nominee. In 1991 he received the Career Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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"...a brutal case of man's inhumanity to man...because he is a beautiful writer he has conceived it as poetic horror story." -- Sumner Locke Elliott
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- PublisherHarper & Row
- Publication date1971
- ISBN 10 0060109939
- ISBN 13 9780060109936
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages200
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