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The Last Days of Night

✍ Scribed by Moore, Graham

Book ID
109188507
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2016
Tongue
en-US
Weight
7 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780812988901

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✦ Synopsis

A thrilling novel based on actual events, about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America --from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE
New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history--and a vast fortune. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country?

The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society--the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and...

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