Author: Graeme Gibson. Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, ON, 1982, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada by The T.H. Best Company. Almost New Condition HARDCOVER Book and Dust Jacket, with an unknown beautiful signature and date inside. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9.25 x 6 inch, 283 pages.
PERPETUAL MOTION, is set in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century, at a time when the machine age was coming into its own, and 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. 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Thomas Graeme Cameron Gibson, CM FRCGS, (August 9, 1934-September 18, 2019) was a Canadian novelist. He was a Member of the Order of Canada, a Senior Fellow of Massey College and one of the organizers of the Writers Union of Canada
