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...that you need not be embarrassed to be seen with at the most exclusive resort? Get your hands on City of Light, a full-to-the-brim first novel. Set in turn-of-the-century Buffalo, N.Y.--a city that's being electrified, literally, by the new turbines at Niagara Falls--the book is part mystery and part historical melodrama, fluently mixing fact and fiction, with the sort of Victorian plot devices that guarantee a straight-through, sleepless read. The novel is no Ragtime, but it's close--an operatic potboiler, fat with romance, politics and scandal...
...connections like these that make Salter's poems so refreshing and interesting. You might see the Watson connection immediately, but Salter also weaves in Niagara falls, the color crimson and Braille. In this and the poem before, "A Jewel of the World," these connections are dense and more intellectually challenging than any others, forcing us to see far beyond the surfaces of things...
...connections like these that make Salter's poems so refreshing and interesting. You might see the Watson connection immediately, but Salter also weaves in Niagara falls, the color crimson and Braille. In this and the poem before, "A Jewel of the World," these connections are dense and more intellectually challenging than any others, forcing us to see far beyond the surfaces of things...
...Grant's name nearly as often without his infamous exploits? Would Linda Tripp be a household name if she wasn’t' a self-professed double talking snoop? Would Annie Taylor be an enduring symbol of American ambition if it wasn't for her unprecedented trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel of her own making? Hardly...
...perfect plan for money and fame. After building with her thin hands a barrel to enclose her body like a womb and shelter her from her fall over the raging ledge of water, Annie Taylor subsequently became the first person in history to propel herself down the length of Niagara Falls in a barrel...