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Article: FICTIONAL SPIN ON ATLANTIC CABLE COMES THROUGH LOUD AND CLEAR.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- June 25, 2003
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Byline: Brian Evenson
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The difference between a good and a bad long novel is the former doesn't seem long enough while the latter seems interminable.
Despite its slow beginning and its nearly 600 pages, John Griesemer's second novel, Signal & Noise, generally reads quickly and fluidly.
This fictional retelling of the 1850s and 1860s project to lay telegraph wire across the bottom of the ocean floor to connect Europe and America has a little of everything: science, history, war, theater, prostitution, romance, and spiritualism.
At the heart of the tale is Chester Ludlow, the engineer who supervises several ...