Sixsmith and Isaac Sachs, another employee who helps Rey, are killed by Hooks’s assassin. Hooks plans to have the reactor fail, causing a disaster and a subsequent boost in the oil business. After finishing his composition, Frobisher commits suicide.ġ973, San Francisco: Luisa Rey is a journalist who has been tipped off by a now older Rufus Sixsmith about foul play in the new nearby nuclear reactor, built by Lloyd Hooks. Frobisher eventually composes his original piece, the Cloud Atlas Sextet, which Vyvyan attempts to steal and claim as his own, leading Frobisher to shoot and injure the old man. He is inspired by the journal kept by Adam Ewing, and sends a series of letters to his lover, Rufus Sixsmith. After returning to San Francisco, Ewing and his wife Tilda join the abolitionist movement.ġ936, Cambridge: Robert Frobisher is a bisexual/homosexual (we aren’t really sure) English composer who takes an apprenticeship under the famous composer Vyvyan Ayrs. Just before Ewing is about to die, Autua saves him from the doctor. Henry Goose slowly poisons Ewing with the intent of killing him for his gold, under the pretense of treating him for a parasite. After they set sail, Ewing finds a stowaway slave, Autua, and begins to help keep him hidden. 1849, Pacific Islands: The setting of the first plot is in the South Pacific, where attorney Adam Ewing arranges a business meeting with plantation owner Gilles Horrox.
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