Metropolis: A Novel - Softcover

Gaffney, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0812970853 ISBN 13: 9780812970852

Verlag: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006

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Cr�ticas:

"Rewarding . . . vivid tableaus and high drama . . . immigrant dreams and desires on the scrappy streets of Five Points."
-The New York Times

"Engaged with history, artfully structured, told with dashing wit . . . full of passions and perils, desire and deceit . . . Metropolis teems with imagined life, as a good page-turner should."
-San Jose Mercury News

"Brawny, old-school storytelling . . . a novel as strong and heady as the brew [Gaffney's] rakes and roustabouts swill by the pint."
-Newsweek

"Metropolis is more than a literary page-turner; it is also a coming-of-age story for a young and strapping New York."
-Vanity Fair

"Engrossing . . . fraught with suspense."
-Elle

Rese�a del editor:

Following a fire in P. T. Barnum's circus stable, a young German immigrant becomes caught up in New York's criminal underworld while falling in love with an Irish girl, as he becomes the target of a city-wide arson investigation, struggling to stay alive, win the woman he loves, and build a new life in late-nineteenth-century New York. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

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