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Metropolis
Elizabeth Gaffney
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Random House Publishing Group
, 2005-03-01
主題
Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Urban & Street Lit
ISBN
1588364577
9781588364579
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tJSQd_gJPKgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Elizabeth Gaffney’s magnificent, Dickensian
Metropolis
captures the splendor and violence of America’s greatest city in the years after the Civil War, as young immigrants climb out of urban chaos and into the American dream.
On a freezing night in the middle of winter, Gaffney’s nameless hero is suddenly awakened by a fire in P. T. Barnum’s stable, where he works and sleeps, and soon finds himself at the center of a citywide arson investigation.
Determined to clear his name and realize the dreams that inspired his hazardous voyage across the Atlantic, he will change his identity many times, find himself mixed up with one of the city’s toughest and most enterprising gangs, and fall in love with a smart, headstrong, and beautiful young woman. Buffeted by the forces of fate, hate, luck, and passion, our hero struggles to build a life–just to stay alive–in a country that at first held so much promise for him.
Epic in sweep,
Metropolis
follows our hero from his arrival in New York harbor through his experiences in Barnum’s circus, the criminal underground, and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, and on to a life in Brooklyn that is at once unique and poignantly emblematic of the American experience. In a novel that is wonderfully written, rich in suspense, vivid historical detail, breathtakingly paced, Elizabeth Gaffney captures the wonder and magic of a rambunctious city in a time of change.
Metropolis
marks a superb fiction debut.