
We Five
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The result is a novel about five young women pursued by five young men of predatory purpose, which takes place alternatively in a small mill town outside of Manchester, England in 1859; in San Francisco on the eve of the 1906 earthquake and fire; in Sinclair Lewis's fictional Zenith, Winnemac in 1923; in London during the Blitz of autumn, 1940; and in a small town in northern Mississippi in 1997. In the first book "We Five? are seamstresses; in the next they are department store sales clerks; in the next, they sing in the choir of a popular female evangelist; in the next, they work in an ordinance factory outside of London; and in the final version, they are cocktail waitresses in a Mississippi River casino.
The book's climax is a dramatic collision of all five incarnations of the story: an incident of mass hysteria arising from a solar storm in 1859, the 1906 San Francisco quake, a fire in the evangelist's newly built "temple? in 1923, the 1940 Balham Underground station bombing and flooding, and a tornado in rural 1997 Mississippi.
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Dramatis Personae
- Chapter One: Tulleford, England, August 1859
- Chapter Two: San Francisco, California, U.S.A., April 1906
- Chapter Three: Zenith, Winnemac, U.S.A., July 1923
- Chapter Four: London, England, October 1940
- Chapter Five: Bellevenue, Mississippi, February 1997
- Chapter Six: Tulleford, England, August 1859
- Chapter Seven: San Francisco, April 1906
- Chapter Eight: Zenith, Winnemac, July 1923
- Chapter Nine: London, England, October 1940
- Chapter Ten: Bellevenue, Mississippi, February 1997
- Chapter Eleven: Tulleford, England, August 1859
- Chapter Twelve: San Francisco, April 1906
- Chapter Thirteen: Zenith, Winnemac, July 1923
- Chapter Fourteen: London, England, October 1940
- Chapter Fifteen: Bellevenue, Mississippi, February 1997
- Chapter Sixteen: Tulleford, England, August 1859
- Chapter Seventeen: San Francisco, April 1906
- Chapter Eighteen: Zenith, Winnemac, July 1923
- Chapter Nineteen: London, England, October 1940
- Chapter Twenty: Bellevenue, Mississippi, February 1997
- Chapter Twenty-One: Tulleford, England, September 1859
- Chapter Twenty-Two: San Francisco, April 1906
- Chapter Twenty-Three: Zenith, Winnemac, July 1923
- Chapter Twenty-Four: London, England, October 1940
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Bellevenue, Mississippi, February 1997
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Tutti
- Epilogue: G Station, 4th Quadrant, Tesla Terranium, Ante-Equinoctial, 2177 CE
- Acknowledgments
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