A Peep Into The 20th Century

About the Book

A National Book Award nominee, this novel is about the first electrical execution in 1890 and the war between Edison and Westinghouse for the soul of electricity's first deliberate victim. "...Davis has written without squeamishness about a brutal case of man's imhumanity to man and because he is a beautiful writer he has conceived it as a poetic horor story."—Sumner Locke Elliott.

About the Author

Christopher Davis is the author of ten novels, two books of nonfiction, a children's book, two plays, and numerous essays. His novel A Peep Into The 20th Century was a National Book Award nominee. In 1991 he received The Career Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.