Paradise Alley: A Novel by Kevin Baker

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Condizione
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Binding
Hardcover
Product Group
Book
Type
Novel
Weight
2 lbs
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780060195823
EAN
9780060195823

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060195827
ISBN-13
9780060195823
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2280098

Product Key Features

Book Title
Paradise Alley : a Novel
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction, History
Author
Kevin Baker
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
36.5 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-276256
Reviews
"Rich in color and drama.... Extraordinary.... A triumph." -- New York Times Phenomenal." -- San Diego Union-Tribune "An engrossing epic" -- Entertainment Weekly "A page-turning epic." -- New York Post "Deftly plotted, fabulously detailed, and never less than absorbing." -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Extraordinary....Baker achieves a hallucinatory realism packed with sensory detail, demonstrating why historical fiction is able to trump conventional historiography." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Extraordinary....Baker achieves a hallucinatory realism packed with sensory detail." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Paradise Alley probes the primal mysteries of ...love and war with skill, drama and deep humanity." -- Edmonton Journal "Skillfully illuminates a little-known episode in this country's history." -- Library Journal "[A] richly detailed, impeccably researched drama." -- Booklist "[A] huge success....fascinating, instructive, never pedantic." -- Houston Chronicle "Paradise Alley is a skillful historical reconstruction -- an exploration of love and loyalty." -- Hartford Courant "Inspired.... vividly entertaining, and its themes are as timely as any drawn from this morning's newspaper. " -- Baltimore Sun "A rare and special work." -- Denver Post "[An] extraordinary talent....Kevin Baker is quickly altering the landscape of American historical fiction." -- Christian Science Monitor, Paradise Alley probes the primal mysteries of ...love and war with skill, drama and deep humanity., Extraordinary....Baker achieves a hallucinatory realism packed with sensory detail, demonstrating why historical fiction is able to trump conventional historiography., [An] extraordinary talent....Kevin Baker is quickly altering the landscape of American historical fiction., Inspired.... vividly entertaining, and its themes are as timely as any drawn from this morning's newspaper.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
At the height of the Civil War, what begins with strong words and a few broken bottles will, over the course of five days, escalate into the worst urban conflagration in American history. Hundreds of thousands of poor Irish immigrants smolder with resentment against a war and a president that have cost them so many of their young men. When word spreads throughout New York's immigrant wards that a military draft is about to be implemented -- a draft from which any rich man's son with $300 can buy an exemption -- trouble begins to spill into the streets. Down in the waterfront slum of Paradise Alley, three women -- Deirdre Dolan O'Kane, Ruth Dove, and Maddy Boyle -- struggle with their private fears as they wait for the storm to descend on them. Deirdre, whose lace-curtain sensibilities have always kept her at arm's length from her neighbors, is devastated by the discovery that her husband, Tom, has been wounded at Gettysburg. In her desperation, Deirdre must turn for aid and comfort to Ruth, a woman she has always judged as morally depraved. Ruth, too, has been cut off from her husband, Billy Dove, an ex-slave. At dawn he set out for the Colored Orphans' Asylum uptown, to collect his last wages. But he has not returned by day's end, or by the next morning. In the meantime, Ruth has learned that dozens of black men and women have been lynched or beaten by rioters. She begins to fear the worst, not just for Billy, but for herself and their children, too -- because she now knows that he is coming. He is Dangerous Johnny Dolan, Deirdre's estranged brother, who after fourteen years' exile has returned to New York. Years before, it was Johnny who saved Ruth from the famine in Ireland, who arranged for her steerage passage from Dublin to New York -- and who beat her mercilessly until she arranged to have him sent away for murder. Even as the riot builds toward its violent climax, Dolan searches relentlessly for Ruth and Deirdre, carried along by the unruly mob. In the end, these remarkable women have nothing but one another to rely on as they seek to protect their homes and families from the brutality of a city -- and a nation -- gone mad. Paradise Alley a story of race and hatred, of love and war, of risk and dauntless courage.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.A43143P37

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