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Author:

Bolander, Brooke, author.

Title:

The only harmless great thing / Brooke Bolander.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Tom Doherty Associates,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

93 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Radium paint--Fiction.
Watch dial painters--Fiction.
Elephants--Fiction.
Radiation--Fiction.
Toxicology--Fiction.
Electrocution--Experiments--Fiction.
Alternative histories (Literature).
Science fiction.
Alternative histories (Fiction)
Science fiction.

Contents:

Fission -- Cascade Reaction.

Summary:

Early in the twentieth century, a group of female factory workers in Newark, New Jersey, slowly died of radiation poisoning. Around the same time an Indian elephant was deliberately and publicly put to death by electricity in Coney Island. These are matters of historical fact. Now these two tragedies are intertwined in a dark alternate history of rage, radioactivity, and wrongs crying out to be righted. Brace yourself for a wrenching journey that crosses eras, chronicling cruelties both grand and petty while searching for meaning and justice.

ISBN:

1250169488
9781250169488

LCCN:

2017278533

Locations:

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)