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      Perpetual Motion

      by Graeme Gibson
      Published
      Sep 1983
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      Set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, "Perpetual Motion" chronicles the fortunes of settler Robert Fraser, a man obsessed with power and control. Driven by the idea of inventing a perpetual motion machine which will utilize natural energy, he neglects and destroys not only the nature around him but his own family too, as his overbearing rationality becomes a kind of tragic lunacy.
      First published in 1982, "Perpetual Motion" is Graeme Gibson s superb evocation of a time when faith in material progress is still challenged by superstition and a lingering belief in magic. It is an ironic yet compassionate examination of the painful consequences of human folly."

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      Sep 2010 McClelland & Stewart (Canada) ISBN13 9780771093999 ISBN10 0771093993
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      May 1988 Penguin ISBN13 9780140103823 ISBN10 0140103821
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      Sep 1997 New Canadian Library ISBN13 9780771034626 ISBN10 0771034628
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      Apr 2003 Emblem Editions ISBN13 9780771033131 ISBN10 0771033133
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      First Edition Sep 1983 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312601324 ISBN10 0312601328
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      Oct 1982 McClelland & Stewart (Canada) ISBN13 9780771032912 ISBN10 0771032919
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