Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0226561097
Pages: 280 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Price: $18.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0226561097
Pages: 280 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Price: $18.00
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Thomas McMahon's extraordinary new novel is an adventure story the way Huckleberry Finn and the Horatio Alger books are adventure stories, a romance the way Scott Fitzgerald's boy-meets-girl stories are romances. It's about a young man named Mourly Vold, a nearly blind physics prodigy who in the early 1920's discovers a way to tap into the long-distance telephone lines and set up a communications network with other blind people nationwide - to the horror of William Randolph Hearst (who believes they're part of a Mexican anarchist plot to infiltrate the U.S.) and with the blessing of Alexander Graham Bell (who with his deaf wife, Mable, becomes a kind of mentor and foster father to Mourly).
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