The Industrial Revolution of Love
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Pub Date Nov 24 2026 | Archive Date Sep 24 2026
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Description
In his ambitious and captivating novel, Roger King explores how humanity got to this critical point - relationships mediated by technology, on the brink of climate and AI disasters. Who have we become? And where are we going?
Exile is never silent. It echoes in the sea, the wind, the pages of a book. A futurist, banished for seeing too far ahead, waits alone on his sailboat off the coast of Maine. His days are measured by weather and memory, by the approach of storms and the uncertain promise of Hannah— his stepdaughter, a cam girl turned reluctant prophet of the planet’ s unraveling— who must flee across the ocean. As the world around him fractures, he turns inward, into The Forsyte Saga, the novel that has become his companion and mirror. The genteel discontents of Galsworthy’ s age begin to merge with his own; Irene Forsyte drifts from the page into his imagination, until he begins to rewrite both their stories into one sweeping lineage of desire, invention, and decline— a history of how humanity brought itself to the edge. Lyrical, haunting, and quietly prophetic, The Industrial Revolution of Love traces the blurred boundaries between solitude and imagination, history and fiction, and the fragile stories we tell to make sense of a collapsing world.
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Advance Praise
".…John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga, offers rich terrain for inspiration and speculation in King’s latest work, which spins a web of connection between money, family, fiction, and the future… erudite, savvy, finely expressed…King’s idiosyncratic creativity… bridges many divides in its search for prophetic connection. Elegantly and bizarrely sui generis."—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Roger King’s witty autofictional fantasia tracks capitalism’s effects through the century since Galsworthy brought Soames and Irene to life. Fans of Nell Stevens’s Bleaker House, Elif Ba tuman’s The Possessed, or Louise Bennett’s Checkout 19 will find this excellent company.”—ANDREA BARRETT, National Book Award winning author of Ship Fever and Natural History
“I noted so many passages, reread many that demanded attention and thought. It is a remarkable novel of many layers that grapples with timeless and contemporary issues. A book I could sink my teeth into and feel I had hardly skimmed the surface.”—THE LITERATE QUILTER
“Beautifully written, with effortless plotting and wondrous riffs on shame and desire. Readers will be riveted!”—TERESE SVOBODA, author of Hitler and My Mother-in-Law and Roxy and Coco
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SELECTED PRAISE FOR THE WRITING OF ROGER KING
“Brilliantly prescient”—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (on A Girl From Zanzibar)
“Instantly compelling; I read it in two days. A fusion of international intrigue and familial longing, Roger King’s beguiling new novel is something rare.”—JENNIFER EGAN (on Man Picks Flower)
“Roger King may well have invented the espionage novel of ideas.”—JESS WALTER (on Man Picks Flower)
“. . . a well-paced, well-plotted, and thematically rich novel…King poses a question that has almost theological undertones: In the face of the world’s corrupting forces, is it possible for us to maintain goodness, love and trust.”—RAIN TAXI REVIEW OF BOOKS (on Man Picks Flower)
“An engaging and subtle tale that unites far-flung worlds in the person of a complex intriguing heroine.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED REVIEW (on A Girl From Zanzibar)
“... King’s extraordinary autobiographical novel. The narrative expertly cobbles together unexpected moments of poetry... and vignettes, which like the narrator himself, alternately admit devastating failure, and sing with triumph.”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEW (on Love and Fatigue in America)
“Rich, compelling and often wry.”—THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (on Love and Fatigue in America)
“One sensed the impressive breadth and depth of Mr. King’s intelligence.”—THE NEW YORKER (on Sea Level)
“Nearly every page crackles with some fresh, sharp and true observation. . . . a delight.”—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (on A Girl From Zanzibar)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781646037674 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 210 |