A "masterful and moving" saga of 1909 New York City, where locals new and old seek to find their dreams-and themselves (Booklist)."Terrific fun. . . . Historical fiction at its most entertaining." -New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable BookIn 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."A Dickensian epic . . . meticulously researched and filled with passages of intoxicating, dreamlike frenzy." -Entertainment Weekly"An epic re-creation of an era. . . . A boisterous, rollicking carnival." -People"One 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." -Publishers Weekly
A "masterful and moving" saga of 1909 New York City, where locals new and old seek to find their dreams-and themselves (Booklist)."Terrific fun. . . . Historical fiction at its most entertaining." -New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Notable BookIn 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."A Dickensian epic . . . meticulously researched and filled with passages of intoxicating, dreamlike frenzy." -Entertainment Weekly"An epic re-creation of an era. . . . A boisterous, rollicking carnival." -People"One 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." -Publishers Weekly
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