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Synopsis
Set in upstate New York in 1869, Moonlight Sonata tells the story of a young woman, Hetty Griswold, caught between two men. On one side stands her husband, Archie Griswold, chief signalman of the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad, a jealous man all too ready to believe the worst of his wife. On the other side stands Chauncey Miller, a former suitor who left off his pursuit in 1861 to answer Lincoln’s first call for volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War. After one letter, she heard nothing more from him during the entire war and for two years after Lee’s surrender. Giving him up for dead, she married Archie, only to see Chauncey reappear, crazed and crippled after four years as a prisoner of war and four years seeking revenge on his captors. He now wishes to reclaim her, and to do so, is willing to make her a widow.
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From the Author
Part of the fun in writing this novel came from the fact that, before I enlisted in the US Army at the outbreak of World War II, I worked for three years as a signalman-telegrapher on the now-defunct New York Central Railroad. In fact, that job is also now defunct--no more signalmen, no more telegraphers. Anyway, in writing of the operations of the Albany & Susquehanna Railroad and of its struggle with the Erie Railroad, I drew upon my own knowledge of an era now long gone, of an occupation to which my father devoted his life. In fact, my father learned the trade of telegrapher from some of those who participated in the Susquehanna War. It was from him I first heard of the affair.
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"The creative instincts of Franklin Rogers have had a profound effect on awakening my own. He helped me see the universal resonance that lies within images: how they glimmer beneath the consciousness of the reader, accumulate depth of emotion, and become the memory of the story's life . . . . Readers will find the same aesthetic and emotional pleasures in reading Franklin Rogers' work. . . ." --Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and numerous other works
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- PublisherKnox Robinson Pub
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1908483768
- ISBN 13 9781908483768
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages250
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