Craig Grimes

That Recoil of Nature Craig Grimes 2nd Revised edition

Publisher Marketing: That Recoil of Nature is a work of literary fiction with all the compelling elements of a good mystery. Echoing throughout this story are the similarities and conflicts between two generations - shaped by very different wars - around the ethics of violence, gender politics, and the nature of responsibility. The novel follows the story of a university student in 1972 - the poet and pacifist, Lawrence MacQuigau - as he discovers the events that embroiled his late mother Maddy, a doctor, twenty years before in the isolated northern village of Wegebow. Her patient, Emelie Gagnon, was slowly being murdered by an abusive husband. Despite Maddy's efforts, the masculine authority in the village refused to intercede, believing in a man's right to rule over his family. Because Emelie was without other family and had lost hope for own survival, Maddy felt that she must protect her. The violence that began in Wegebow will soon take over Lawrence's life, threaten his convictions (and his daughter), and compel him to act when he discovers the connections between the events in Wegebow and his mother's death. Craig Grimes is an unusual writer. Although ostensibly crime stories, his novels are not formulaic mysteries or police procedurals. No Viable Option, for example, includes political satire and cultural commentary. Grimes often employs devices like multiple points of view, and shifts in narrative voice and time. Contributor Bio:  Grimes, Craig Craig A. Grimes received B. S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and the Ph. D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990.  In 1990 he joined the Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory where he worked on artificial dielectric structures.  From 1994 to 2001 Dr. Grimes was a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Kentucky, where he was the Frank J. Derbyshire Professor.  He is currently a Professor at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park.  His research interests include solar generation of hydrogen by water photoelectrolysis, remote query chemical and environmental sensors, nano-dimensional metal-oxide thin film architectures, and propagation and control of electromagnetic energy.  He has contributed over 150 archival journal publications, eight book chapters, and over fifteen patents.  He is Editor-in-Chief of Sensor Letters, co-author of the book The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light published by World Scientific (2nd Edition, 2005), and Editor of The Encyclopedia of Sensors to be published by American Scientific Publishing in 2005.