A modern mobile crane with outriggers. The latticed boom is fitted with a gib. A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places.
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty.
âThe Girl on the Trainâ has âGone Girlâ-type fun with unreliable spouses, too. Its author, Paula Hawkins, isnât as clever or swift as Gillian Flynn, the author of âGone Girl,â but sheâs no slouch when it comes to trickery or malice. So âThe Girl on the Trainâ is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership too. Ms. Hawkinsâs story has three women to narrate it.