{"product_id":"edens-clock","title":"Eden's Clock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA disabled Civil War veteran makes an epic, westward journey toward a fateful encounter with author Jack London, only hours before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRendered mute at the Battle of Gettysburg, Frederick Heigold returns to Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he marries a resolute suffragist and resumes his vocation as a clocksmith. Bereft after she dies in a freak accident, he accepts a commission to repair the enormous clock on the San Francisco Embarcadero, but the routine railway journey becomes a six-month odyssey. Finally reaching the Pacific, after having survived imprisonment, shipwreck on Edisto Island, and run-ins with assorted roughnecks and thieves, he happens upon novelist Jack London drinking in the Palace Hotel bar--just before one of the deadliest natural disasters in United States history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEden's Clock\u003c\/i\u003e, the twelfth and final stand-alone book in The American Novels series, calls into question the American belief in individualism to shape our destiny when confronted with irrepressible, chaotic forces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943517651175,"sku":"9781954276383","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_34779e19-920d-4f21-94c9-9c8908af2785.jpg?v=1775324766","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/edens-clock","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}