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The Kingdom of Ohio - Matthew Flaming
The Kingdom of Ohio
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An incredibly original, intelligent novel?a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan.After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the... show more
An incredibly original, intelligent novel?a love story set against New York City at the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan.After discovering an old photograph, an elderly antiques dealer living in present-day Los Angeles is forced to revisit the history he has struggled to deny. The photograph depicts a man and a woman. The man is Peter Force, a young frontier adventurer who comes to New York City in 1901 and quickly lands a job digging the first subway tunnels beneath the metropolis. The woman is Cheri- Anne Toledo, a beautiful mathematical prodigy whose memories appear to come from another world. They meet seemingly by chance, and initially Peter dismisses her as crazy. But as they are drawn into a tangle of overlapping intrigues, Peter must reexamine Cheri-Anne?s fantastic story. Could it be that she is telling the truth and that she has stumbled onto the most dangerous secret imaginable: the key to traveling through time? Set against the mazelike streets of New York at the dawn of the mechanical age, Peter and Cheri-Anne find themselves wrestling with the nature of history, technology, and the unfolding of time itself.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780399155604 (0399155600)
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
Pages no: 322
Edition language: English
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Tesseract Thoughts
Tesseract Thoughts rated it
4.0
I really liked this book. I thought that the split-story flowed easily, and it provided a nice switch of perspective at times.I loved the historical footnotes and references, and the back-story was quite believable (I was actually telling friends about the "Kingdom of Ohio" before finding that it wa...
megancsparks
megancsparks rated it
This book is definitely a puzzle. It sort of turns everything on its head. Even if you think you know American/Ohioan history, the information presented in this book will make you wonder if you're missing something. There are layers of confusion and uncertainty in here. I really enjoyed reading it, ...
M.W. Gerard
M.W. Gerard rated it
4.0 The Kingdom of Ohio
Matthew Flaming manages to reinvent a Jules Verne-esque adventure. And in the midst of the action, finds quiet moments to consider how history is written, and remembered. How permanent is memory? Can a photograph be evidence of anything? ...My complete review is here: http://cineastesbookshelf.bl...
Genosha is for lovers
Genosha is for lovers rated it
2.0
The premise of the book seems to be of interest to most of the other reviewers, but not I. I was hoping that because of (or perhaps despite of) that the writing and characters would make the book appeal to me; it did not.Not that the book was horrible, but it seemed to be trying way to hard and had...
futurista
futurista rated it
4.0 The Kingdom of Ohio
What would happen if you time traveled into the future and nobody remembers you? Such is the fate of Cheri-Ann, princess of the Kingdom of Ohio. Never heard of the Kingdom of Ohio? Yeah, that's one of the main problems. Cheri-Ann finds herself 12 years in her future, broke and destitute in an unforg...
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