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Exposition: An American Epic
Meet Benjamin Wyatt, a handsome young architect helping create the magnificent 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. While immersed in work at the famous architectural firm of Burnham and Root, Benjamin’s pugnacious, social climbing father, Walter Wyatt, pushes him to marry the stunningly beautiful debutante, Evelyn Van Buren—thus securing the family’s position in Chicago society. Yet, when Benjamin meets the cocky young electrical engineer, Spencer Bowles, who is also working on the fair, his world and its ambitions are forever shattered.
Set amidst the opulent splendor of Chicago in the late Victorian Age, Benjamin must confront the perils of accepting his own true love and risk destroying everything he worked so hard to achieve. Meticulously researched and filled with lush images of the Gilded Age, Exposition, tells the epic story of a love that dare not speak its name.
Set amidst the opulent splendor of Chicago in the late Victorian Age, Benjamin must confront the perils of accepting his own true love and risk destroying everything he worked so hard to achieve. Meticulously researched and filled with lush images of the Gilded Age, Exposition, tells the epic story of a love that dare not speak its name.
368 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2013
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About the author
Kyle Taylor
22 books1 followerKyle Taylor is the author of Wildflower, Exposition and Billion Dollar Dreamer. The Kyle Taylor character debuted in Billion Dollar Dreamer as a journalist who was assigned to write a story about high school history teacher cum overnight billionaire John Driskil. He resides in New York -- and of course he is a work of fiction!
You can contact Kyle at BillionDollarDreamer@gmail.com
You can contact Kyle at BillionDollarDreamer@gmail.com
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February 7, 2014
3.25
An interesting look into the life of an architect working during the 1829 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The pressures Benjamin felt to meet his social, career, and familial obligations were enough to crush the drain the life out of anyone. His only reprieve from all of it was with Spencer. The relationships between Benjamin and his family, his fiancee, and his lover were very well developed. I only have a couple of complaints. The first is due to writing style. It was a little too flowery and descriptive for me. That's just personal taste. The other may be more universal. The ending was strange for me. I liked where it ended, but the final events in Russia left me wondering why there and why that.
An interesting look into the life of an architect working during the 1829 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The pressures Benjamin felt to meet his social, career, and familial obligations were enough to crush the drain the life out of anyone. His only reprieve from all of it was with Spencer. The relationships between Benjamin and his family, his fiancee, and his lover were very well developed. I only have a couple of complaints. The first is due to writing style. It was a little too flowery and descriptive for me. That's just personal taste. The other may be more universal. The ending was strange for me. I liked where it ended, but the final events in Russia left me wondering why there and why that.
August 6, 2016
I LOVED 80% of the story and I could easily have given this 5 stars but what the Hell happened with the last 20%!!!! I just don't understand the whole Russian episode ... why!? it just doesn't fit with the rest of the book, it's utterly absurd and then there is the abrupt ending! I'm pissed off!
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