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Rayner, Richard The Cloud Sketcher
Harpercollins Pub Ltd September 3, 20 0-00-712327-2 / 9780007123278 Paperback Very Good+
Taking early skyscrapers' unlikely assault on the heavens as its central me taphor, this transatlantic Great Expectations of the jazz-age '20s spins a captivating tale of a disfigured Finnish boy's life quest for fame as an ar chitect and his elusive true love. In 1901, three events shape 11-year-old Esko's future. He is burned and blinded in one eye in a fire. News reaches Esko's remote Finnish village of the country's first elevatorAan invention that immediately captures the boy's imagination. Then months later at the v illage fair, he meets and falls in love with a beautiful Russian girl, Kate rina Malysheva, the unattainable daughter of the czar-appointed provincial governor. The years find Esko pursuing his dream as a draftsman in Helsinki , and Katerina engaged to Esko's best friend and colleague, Klaus. Survivin g the Bolshevik revolution and Finland's own bloody civil war, Esko emigrat es in 1922 to New York, where he works as a riveter on skyscrapers and save s the life of Paul Mantilini, who later becomes a powerful bootlegger. Esko gains an entre into New York's architectural world through a newspaper des ign contest and learns that Katerina is gaining fame in that city as a phot ographer. When he finally finds Katerina again, Esko has achieved a measure of professional success, but she is engaged to Manhattan blueblood Andrew MacCormick, who offers to finance the building of Esko's skyscraper. After he is arrested for MacCormick's murder, Esko seeks help from his gangster f riend. Ultimately, Esko must put a price on his dreams, personal loyalties, honor and life.
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