In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden, Kathleen Cambor
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In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

Author: Kathleen Cambor

Narrator: James Daniels

Unabridged: 10 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 08/25/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

An Elegantly Crafted Love Story Set in Post-Civil War AmericaIn Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden tells of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the greatest industrial disaster in American history: the construction and subsequent collapse in 1889 of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, dam. It was a tragedy that cost 2,200 lives, implicated some of the most illustrious financiers of the day - Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon - whose carelessness contributed to the disaster, and irreparably changed the lives of those who survived it. This is the story of these men and of the families who lived in the shadow of the dam: the daughter of the lawyer who filed the charter for an exclusive club on the shore of the artificially created lake; the Quaker steel mill owner who tried to stop the dam's construction; a librarian, escaping to a bustling mountain city from a loveless life in Boston; a young man determined to expose and undermine the greed and carelessness that shaped the last years of the nineteenth century. A cautionary tale for our new century, In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden is a story of youthful promise and devastating loss, of power and its misuse, and of greed and the philanthropy that is too often a guilty by-product.

About Kathleen Cambor

Kathleen Cambor is a PEN/Faulkner nominee and author of The Book of Mercy (1996). She is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston and lives in Houston with her husband.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on March 19, 2010

After reading David McCullough's Johnstown Flood, a non-fiction account of this disaster, I was intrigued by Ms. Cambor's In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden. If one wants the facts surrounding the Johnstown flood, McCullough's work serves well. If one is looking for the human side of the events lead......more

Goodreads review by Harriett on July 03, 2019

Really enjoyed this work of historical fiction. Maybe you'd have to be from Pittsburgh. Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon and Andrew Carnegie are characters in this book about the Johnstown flood of 1889. The South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club built a huge lake, which eventually broke the dam and flo......more

Goodreads review by Helen on December 17, 2015

Very well done. The setting is the first Johnstown (Pa) flood, 1889. The characters inhabit both the capitalists who created the conditions for the flood by damming up rivers for their enjoyment and the folks who live downstream who were at the mercy of their thoughtless, bad decisions. Definitely r......more

Goodreads review by Sandra D on December 30, 2008

Terribly overwritten. Desuetude, threnody, marmoreal, pellucid: Cambor needs to back away from the thesaurus. She's trying too hard to be a Great Writer. But it wasn't all bad. I'd only thought of Frick, Carnegie, et al, as old robber barons, never as young men just starting out, so that was kind of......more

Goodreads review by Colleen on June 28, 2011

when we were on vacation last summer, i bought this book in the hotel's run-down gift shop. it appeared to have been read once and then was put back on the shelf to sell. since it was only $5 and 10+ years old, my expectations were low. but i needed a book, and we were in the middle of the pochanoes......more

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