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City of Promise : A Novel of New York's Gilded Age Hardcover Beve
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1439136947
ISBN-13
9781439136942
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109035281
Product Key Features
Book Title
City of Promise : a Novel of New York's Gilded Age
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Topic
Sagas, General, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
20.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-010782
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"The title city is New York. The age is gilded. The Civil War is about to end, and the author is tackling love, life, adventure, big business and the dazzling glamour and appalling squalor of the city that never sleeps. Even way back in the 1860s." -Anne Bendheim, Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), "Run, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling's compulsively readable City of Promise ." --Mark Peikert, New York Press, "Enthralling. . . . Swerling's swashbuckling tale brings old Manhattan vividly to life, throbbing with restless energy and populated with a diverse and intriguing cast of characters both real . . . and richly imagined. . . . [An] evocative and entertaining saga." - Publisher's Weekly, eoeClearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. . . . These private and national escapades play out in a great swirl of plots and counter plots . . . riotously entertaining." e"Ron Charles, The Washington Post, "Riotously entertaining . . . Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post, eoeThe author brings the time alive with true characters . .. conflict, tension, romance, the upper and lower levels of society and a satisfying finale. Highly recommended.e e" The Historical Novels Review , on City of Glory, "Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. . . . These private and national escapades play out in a great swirl of plots and counter plots . . . riotously entertaining." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post, "The author brings the time alive with true characters . . . conflict, tension, romance, the upper and lower levels of society and a satisfying finale. Highly recommended." -- The Historical Novels Review , on City of Glory, "The author brings the time alive with true characters . . . conflict, tension, romance, the upper and lower levels of society and a satisfying finale. Highly recommended." -- The Historical Novels Review , on City of Glory, "A whopping saga . . . teeming with bizarre medicine, slave uprisings, executions, thriving brothels, and occasional cannibalistic Indians. . . . A near perfect historical novel." -Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times , on City of Dreams, "The title city is New York. The age is gilded. The Civil War is about to end, and the author is tackling love, life, adventure, big business and the dazzling glamour and appalling squalor of the city that never sleeps. Even way back in the 1860s." --Anne Bendheim, Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), "Run, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling's compulsively readable City of Promise ." -Mark Peikert, New York Press, Swerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast new advances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." - Publishers Weekly, "The history of New York City, as told through the fiction of Beverly Swerling, just keeps getting better." --Terry Mapes, Mansfield News Journal (Ohio), "[Swerling] nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan" -Beth Johnson, Entertainment Weekly, "With a fast-paced, complex plot showcasing opulent Fifth Avenue mansions, Wall Street pandemonium, deals both fair and underhand, and the rising influence of the ethnic gangs, Swerling expertly interlaces the stories of a Gilded Age couple and their magnificent city. Compulsive reading that informs and entertains." --Sarah Johnson, Booklist, "Love, life, adventure, big business and the dazzling glamour and appalling squalor of the city that never sleeps. Even way back in the 1860s." -Anne Bendheim, Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), "Swerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast new advances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." -- Publishers Weekly, "The title city is New York. The age is gilded. The Civil War is about to end, and the author is tackling love, life, adventure, big business and the dazzling glamour and appalling squalor of the city that never sleeps. Even way back in the 1860s." e"Anne Bendheim, Asbury Park Press (New Jersey), [Swerling] nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan" -Beth Johnson, Entertainment Weekly, "Swerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast new advances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." - Publishers Weekly, eoeSwerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast newadvances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." e" Publishers Weekly, eoeRun, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerlinge(tm)s compulsively readable City of Promise .e e"Mark Peikert, New YorkPress, "The history of New York City, as told through the fiction of Beverly Swerling, just keeps getting better." -Terry Mapes, Mansfield News Journal (Ohio), "[Swerling] nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan" --Beth Johnson, Entertainment Weekly, eoe[Swerling] nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan" e"Beth Johnson, Entertainment Weekly, "Run, do not walk, to purchase a copy of Beverly Swerling's compulsively readable City of Promise ." --Mark Peikert, New York Press, Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. . . . These private and national escapades play out in a great swirl of plots and counter plots . . . riotously entertaining." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post, "Swerling nimbly weaves fact-based history and fast-paced fiction into a vivid tableau of 1870s Manhattan." - Entertainment Weekly, "With a fast-paced, complex plot showcasing opulent Fifth Avenue mansions, Wall Street pandemonium, deals both fair and underhand, and the rising influence of the ethnic gangs, Swerling expertly interlaces the stories of a Gilded Age couple and their magnificent city." -Sarah Johnson, Booklist, eoeWith a fast-paced, complex plot showcasing opulent Fifth Avenue mansions, Wall Street pandemonium, deals both fair and underhand, and the rising influence of the ethnic gangs, Swerling expertly interlaces the stories of a Gilded Age couple and their magnificent city. Compulsive reading that informs and entertains.e e"Sarah Johnson, Booklist, "The history of New York City, as told through the fiction of Beverly Swerling, just keeps getting better." e"Terry Mapes, Mansfield News Journal (Ohio), "Clearly, if Swerling had been my history teacher, I would have paid closer attention. . . . These private and national escapades play out in a great swirl of plots and counter plots . . . riotously entertaining." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post, "The author brings the time alive with true characters . . . conflict, tension, romance, the upper and lower levels of society and a satisfying finale. Highly recommended." - The Historical Novels Review , on City of Glory, "A whopping saga . . . teeming with bizarre medicine, slave uprisings, executions, thriving brothels, and occasional cannibalistic Indians. . . . A near perfect historical novel." e"Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times , on City of Dreams, "With a fast-paced, complex plot showcasing opulent Fifth Avenue mansions, Wall Street pandemonium, deals both fair and underhand, and the rising influence of the ethnic gangs, Swerling expertly interlaces the stories of a Gilded Age couple and their magnificent city. Compulsive reading that informs and entertains." -Sarah Johnson, Booklist, "A whopping saga . . . teeming with bizarre medicine, slave uprisings, executions, thriving brothels, and occasional cannibalistic Indians. . . . A near perfect historical novel." --Mark Rozzo, Los Angeles Times , on City of Dreams, "Swerling vividly captures the greed, corruption, violence, and banking failures that accompanied vast new advances in transportation, communication, and lighting during this era." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Synopsis
Beverly Swerling's critically acclaimed epic saga continues as New York emerges from the Civil War into the Gilded Age--a city marked by soaring expansion and teeming with unbridled ambition and dazzling glamour. It is 1864. The South's surrender is inevitable, and Manhattan is at the heart of the recovering nation's surge to prosperity. On its bustling streets crowds hustle from place to place amid a maelstrom of carriages and horse-drawn trolleys. Vanderbilt's new Grand Central Depot and the glittering Ladies' Mile shine as beacons of the city's burgeoning wealth. Joshua Turner returns home from the War with only one leg, but his ambition intact, and sees opportunity in the exponential growth of vital city workers--the managers and clerks who churn New York's economic life. This new middle class must live in dreary "family residences," where everyone eats in a shared dining room and no woman can have a key to her own front door. Manhattan, Joshua realizes, has limited land but unlimited air. He aspires to build the city's first apartment houses for everyman, a daring vision that will make him New York's first true real estate titan but will also attract the dangerous attention of a shadowy figure from Josh's days in a notorious Confederate prison. Meanwhile, the irresistible and clever Mollie Brannigan, raised by her extraordinary Auntie Eileen in perhaps the toniest bordello in town, is resigned at age twenty-two to spinsterhood . . . till Joshua finds her at Macy's, the city's largest emporium, and takes her coaching in Central Park, while explaining why the millionaire mansions that line their route are not how he sees the future. In Joshua's love Mollie finds a world of possibilities she had not dared to dream, but it is her aunt's intervention that makes them real. How ironic, then, that a secret Eileen thought left behind in Ireland will force Mollie to employ all her wits to protect not just her chance at happiness but her life. This is New York at a time of unyielding progress and technological wonder, a bustling metropolis coming into its own, as its skyline is transformed by the proliferation of ever-taller buildings and the Brooklyn Bridge slowly rises out of the East River. Vividly imagined and awash in period detail and the unforgettable characters that only Beverly Swerling can conjure, City of Promise delivers a historical adventure of suspense and intrigue, daring plot twists and bitter rivalries, and the captivating love story of two people struggling to forge their own destiny.
LC Classification Number
PS3619.W47C66 2011
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