Gob's Grief : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Years after his young brother, Tomo, is killed during the Civil War, a grieving Gob Woodhull, the son of nineteenth-century feminist Victoria Woodhull, now studying to become a doctor, concocts a scheme to build a machine that can restore all the war dead to life. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.