Quinn's Book
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- €9.49
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- €9.49
Publisher Description
From the moment he rescues the beautiful, passionate Maud Fallon from the icy waters of the Hudson one wintry day in 1849, Daniel Quinn is thrust into a bewildering, adventure-filled journey through the tumult of nineteenth-century America. As he quests after the beguiling and elusive Maud, Daniel will witness the rise and fall of great dynasties in upstate New York, epochal prize fights, exotic life in the theatre, visitations from spirits beyond the grave, horrific battles between Irish immigrants and the "Know-Nothings," vicious New York draft riots, heroic passages through the Underground Railroad, and the bloody despair of the Civil War.
Filled with Dickensian characters, a vivid sense of history, and a marvellously inventive humor, Quinn's Bookis an engaging delight by an acclaimed modern master.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The scene is still Albany and environs, but the time is the decade or so preceding the Civil War, the tone ``high fantastical.'' Daniel Quinn is a self-reliant orphan; plucky, ambitious and in love. ``Narrative is not the essence here,'' commented PW of this ``richly packed'' novel. ``It is Quinn' s endless, apparently effortless invention that dazzles, like a virtuoso musician improvising.'' 75,000 first printing; $65,000 ad/promo.
