The Mercury Fountain (Paperback)

from meldridge

I read this book as part of the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program. I have to say that it is not a book I would have chosen on my own, but am glad that I got the opportunity to read it. It is interesting on a couple different levels. The surface story was okay although ended a little darker tha...

from LynnGW

Mercury Fountain by Eliza Factor follows a family (the Scrapertons) as they try to forge a life in an in an utopian society, Pristina. Mercury mining creates the financial means of survival. The Mercury Fountain is built in the town square. It demonstrates the difficulties in trying to create a u...

from whitreidtan

Texas has long has the reputation of being its own place, not entirely subject to the rules that govern other states. Consider that many of its inhabitants still consider it the Republic of Texas and that it was once its own sovereign state. This mindset coupled with its mountainous and desert la...

from RaucousRain

I enjoyed reading this book right from the very beginning, and it held my interest through until its strong conclusion. The story is set in Texas near the Mexican border, and it was fascinating to read an unusual and compelling story about a fictional border town where there actually had been mer...

from LukeS

In Eliza Factor's novel The Mercury Fountain, Owen Scraperton founds a utopian society in West Texas at the very beginning of the 20th century, to be supported by mercury mining and the ideals of reason and enlightenment. Unfortunately, events and the resulting family conflict overtake and consum...