The Blast - Softcover

Matthews, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1629639109 ISBN 13: 9781629639109

Verlag: PM Press, 2022

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San Francisco, 1916. The streets roiling: pitched battles between radical workers and the henchmen of industrial barons, and between a vibrant, largely Italian immigrant anarchist milieu and the forces of state and church. All in the looming shadow of Europe’s raging war, and of a fierce struggle over whether the U.S. should commit its might, and human fodder, to the slaughter in the trenches.

Into this maelstrom arrives Kate Jameson, a novice envoy from Washington tasked to secretly investigate the tenor of support for war entry among San Francisco’s business elite. She’s also hoping to glimpse her wayward daughter, Maggie, whose last message to Kate had come from there. And, too, she’s seeking the ghost of her husband Jamey, who fifteen years earlier had landed there upon his return, shattered, from his part in the U.S. occupation of the Philippines.

Arriving back in the city at the same moment is Baldo Cavanaugh, a Sicilian-Irish son of San Francisco whose militant beliefs and special skills have led him time and again to the violent extremes of the city’s turbulent history. And who now must confront the doubts and demons of his own character, which he’d sought to escape by fleeing the city three years before.

This stunning tale explores how these two seemingly disparate characters become engaged with the city’s and nation’s turmoil, and with the complexities of their related pasts in Boston, Dublin, London, Cuba, and the Philippines. A vivid picture of a city and a moment, the novel brilliantly reveals the explosive admixture of the deeply personal and the deeply political.

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Joseph Matthews was born in Boston, raised there and
in California, and has lived for many years in San Francisco. Formerly a
criminal defense lawyer, he is author of the novels Everyone Has Their
Reasons and Shades of Resistance, the story collection The
Lawyer Who Blew Up His Desk, and the post-September 11 political analysis Afflicted
Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (with Iain Boal, T.J.
Clark, and Michael Watts).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: PM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1629639109
• ISBN 13: 9781629639109
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar