Signal And Noise
  • Published: 1 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099460183
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $22.99

Signal And Noise

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'Capacious, gutsy and gratifying'Joseph O'Connor, author of Star of the Sea

On a dark, wet London morning in 1857, Chester Ludlow, an American engineer, arrives on the muddy banks of the Isle of Dogs to witness the launch of the largest steamship ever built, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's The Great Eastern. Ludlow, propelled by fierce ambition, is a key member of a small consortium whose ambition is to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable. He has abandoned his fragile wife, Franny, on their estate in Maine. The couple are still in deep mourning for their daughter who died in a tragic accident, aged only four. The charismatic Ludlow meets a woman who will exert the most powerful influence on his life and work - the beautiful and enigmatic Katerina Lindt. As both Ludlow and Franny's lives start to unravel, they find themselves caught up in a relentless tide of change crashing across both continents and blurring the boundaries between the physical and the spiritual worlds.
  • Published: 1 April 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099460183
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

John Griesemer

John Griesemer has worked as a mental hospital orderly, a fisherman and a journalist. He is an actor and has appeared on and off Broadway and in television and film, including Malcolm X, Days of Thunder and The Crucible. He lives with his family in New Hampshire.

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Praise for Signal And Noise

A riveting read - big, bold, rambunctious and very rewarding

Richard Russo, author of EMPIRE FALLS

Griesemer's energetic plotting and prose mirror the vigour of the age he describes

New York Times

Ambition, failure, triumph, love, betrayal, farce, and spirt-conjuring - these are some of the subjects powerfully animated in this grand novel. John Griesemer is a masterful writer

Joanna Scott, author of ARROGANCE

Griesemer's novel has the courage of ambition and deserves serious praise for that alone

Time Out

Capacious, gutsy and gratifying

Joseph O'Connor, author of STAR OF THE SEA
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