"A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams"
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.
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"A literary tour de force, a magnificent chronicle of a remarkable era and a place of dreams"
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.
Imprint | HarperCollins Publishers |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | 2006 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 2006 |
Authors | Kevin Baker |
Dimensions | 204 x 134 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 657 |
Edition | 1st Harper Perennial ed |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-06-085272-6 |
Barcode | 9780060852726 |
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LSN | 0-06-085272-0 |