Dreamland
A Novel
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Autor:
Kevin Baker
Beschreibung:
A "masterful and moving" saga of 1909 New York City, wherelocals new and old seek to find their dreams-and themselves ( Booklist ).
"Terrific fun.... Historical fiction at its most entertaining." - New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Notable Book
In a stunning work of imagination and memory, author Kevin Baker brings to mesmerizing life a vibrant, colorful, thrilling, and dangerous New York City in the earliest years of the twentieth century. A novel breathtaking in its scope and ambition, it is the epic saga of newcomers drawn to the promise of America-gangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow oddities-whose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland.
"A Dickensian epic... meticulously researched and filled with passages of intoxicating, dreamlike frenzy." - Entertainment Weekly
"An epic re-creation of an era.... A boisterous, rollicking carnival." - People
"One is tempted to call this grandly entertaining saga some kind of populist masterpiece, as Baker gauges the myth of the egalitarian American melting-pot against the corruption, economic exploitation and racism of a cutthroat society." - Publishers Weekly
Kategorie:
Fremdsprachige eBooks
Verlag:
HarperCollins e-books
Sprache:
Englisch
Anzahl Seiten:
676
Erscheinungstag:
2024-03-19
EAN:
9780061983733
ISBN:
978-0-06-198373-3
