In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden
| Title | In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Publication Type | Novel |
| Number of Pages or Episodes | 258 p. |
| Language | English |
| Authors | Cambor, Kathleen |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| City | New York |
| Keywords | Adelaide Frick (1859-1931); American Red Cross; Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919); Edgar Thomson Works; Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919); Homestead Steel Works; Johnstown Flood of 1889; Knights of Labor; legal profession; Robert Pitcairn (1836-1909); Sarah Jane Negley (1817-1909); steel industry; trade unions |
| Abstract | A novelization of the Johnstown Flood which follows the Fallon family: Frank, a steel mill foreman and Civil War veteran; Frank's son Daniel, a labor organizer; James Talbot, a lawyer hired for the club; and Frank's daughter Nora, an amateur naturalist who believes that the dam, built as an Eden for the captains of industry, is likely to fail. |
| Author Biography | Kathleen Cambor (1947— ) was born and raised in Pittsburgh, earning a degree in nursing at the University of Pittsburgh. She lives in Houston, where for many years she's taught in the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. |
| Time | 1889 |
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