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Language English Media type Print (hardback) ISBN 0-374-16537-8 Originally published 2001 Preceded by The Book of Mercy Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux OCLC 44090481 | 3.7/5 Goodreads Publication date 2001 Pages 256 pp Dewey Decimal 813/.54 21 Genre Novel Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In Sunlight, In a Beautiful Garden is the second novel of the American writer Kathleen Cambor.
A historical novel, its plot is based on the Johnstown Flood of 1889, when more than 2,000 people drowned after the collapse of the South Fork Dam. It accurately portrays the historical figures of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, the industrialists Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie, in their cameo roles. The novel features fictional characters, such as Frank Fallon, a steel mill foreman and American Civil War veteran; his son Daniel, a labor organizer; James Talbot, a lawyer hired for the club; and his daughter Nora, an amateur naturalist who believes that the dam, built to provide an Eden for the captains of industry, is likely to fail.
The novel was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of 2001.