Metropolis
By Elizabeth Gaffney
By Elizabeth Gaffney
By Elizabeth Gaffney
By Elizabeth Gaffney
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction
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$16.00
Feb 14, 2006 | ISBN 9780812970852
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Mar 01, 2005 | ISBN 9781588364579
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Praise
“Rewarding . . . vivid tableaus and high drama . . . immigrant dreams and desires on the scrappy streets of Five Points.”
–The New York Times
“Engaged with history, artfully structured, told with dashing wit . . . full of passions and perils, desire and deceit . . . Metropolis teems with imagined life, as a good page-turner should.”
–San Jose Mercury News
“Brawny, old-school storytelling . . . a novel as strong and heady as the brew [Gaffney’s] rakes and roustabouts swill by the pint.”
–Newsweek
“Metropolis is more than a literary page-turner; it is also a coming-of-age story for a young and strapping New York.”
–Vanity Fair
“Engrossing . . . fraught with suspense.”
–Elle
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