No, it's not that young writers are constantly emerging. It's more like I'm getting old. The day before yesterday, those born since 1980 were kids, upstarts in any field. Today they are thirty-somethings with a background that, in the case of Graham moore It may include a career as a top-notch film screenwriter plus a few forays into the world of literature. A question of knowing how to take advantage of time.
In his novelistic side, Moore is a writer with that ability to weave from the anecdotal, to build plots from historical aspects or details that seem like ramifications of another main story to end up transforming everything into a narrative event of the first magnitude. It must be a thing of the famous butterfly flapping capable of waking up a hurricane on the other side of the world.
For Moore, things happen underground until they manifest themselves as the epicenter of the earthquake of a plot that takes over any other circumstance. And so its reading is always surprising, a constant discovery.
Top recommended books by Graham Moore
The night light
The invention of light, beyond God Himself, we attribute entirely to Thomas Edison. But, what was behind the invention that served to illuminate cities around the world?
In this novel we are asked a multitude of questions about the invention of the electric light bulb. It is already known that the original invention, attributed to Edison in 1879, brought glory to this inventor, although it is also commonly known that he was in charge of perfecting it, not imagining it for the first time.
El book The night light It is about patents and half-truths, about interests and scientific advances. The year is 1888 and the light bulb project as a general lighting system for Manhattan is being considered a near reality.
Edison had his genius, no doubt. But perhaps he had it in both senses, the creative genius and the plain genius, a genius capable of anything to defend his entire authorship for one of the inventions of the century.
And at that point, between the fascinating advance as a civilization that controls the night and the interest in pride, this fast-paced novel advances. Fierce struggles for intellectual property between the surprised inhabitants of a city eager to exalt their new idols.
You are undoubtedly thinking, what about Nikola Tesla? Yes, he represents the other genius, perhaps less genius as a temperament and more genius as a creator. History may end up elevating Tesla to the highest of altars, perhaps it is fair. His studios today offer infinite possibilities in terms of free electricity and light bulbs that never go out.
You may find that in this novel ... Why silence one in favor of the other? Because Edison took all the limelight. Could it be that dark interests saw in Edison's approach more economic reversal for large investors?
In this novel you will walk through the Manhattan of the late XNUMXth century, you will live with some citizens amazed by the appearance of a modernity just around the corner. But you will also know the scenarios of the elites who managed it and manage everything. There where it was decided how to do it, how to illuminate all the cities of the world.
The jury 272
Entirely assaulting fiction, Moore disguises himself as Grisham to take us to the courtroom of one of those cases that well presented move the social foundations ...
Jessica, the teenage daughter of the great Los Angeles mogul Lou Silver, disappears on her way home from school. Her teacher, Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African-American, becomes the main suspect when illicit messages that he had exchanged with the student come to light and the victim's blood is found in his car. The judicial process becomes the most mediatic of the last decade. The prosecution believes they are facing a solid and easy-to-win case, but Maya Seale, a young woman who is part of the popular jury, is convinced of Bobby's innocence and will begin to influence the rest of the members to find him not guilty.
This controversial decision, which will change everyone's destiny forever, is questioned ten years later, when the case is reopened and the career of Maya, now a prestigious lawyer, falters. And the secretive lives of the jurors and the Silver family itself will also be shaken, while all trace of Bobby has been lost.
