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A âmasterful and movingâ saga of 1909 New York City, where locals new and old seek to find their dreamsâand themselves (Booklist). âTerrific fun. . . . Historical fiction at its most entertaining.â âNew York Times Book Review A New York Times Notable Book 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 Americaâgangsters and laborers, hucksters and politicians, radicals, reformers, murderers, and sideshow odditiesâwhose stories of love, revenge, and tragedy interweave and shine in the artificial electric dazzle of a wondrous place called Dreamland. âA Dickensian epic . . . meticulously researched and filled with passages of intoxicating, dreamlike frenzy.â âEntertainment Weekly âAn epic re-creation of an era. . . . A boisterous, rollicking carnival.â âPeople âOne is tempted to call this grandly entertaining saga some kind of populist masterpiece, as Baker gauges the myth of the egalitarian American melting-pot against the corruption, economic exploitation and racism of a cutthroat society.â âPublishers Weekly |
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