Dreamland
A Novel
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4.0 • 2개의 평가
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- US$7.99
출판사 설명
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 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 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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Disappointing ending
If you don’t mind the fascinating slog through early 1900s NY history, Kevin Baker did an amazing job of bringing the era to life. The characters were terrific. But, after thousands of pages (iPad—I have no idea how long the print book is), there seemed to be nothing but speculative endings, with no real effort to bring the separate threads together or give anyone an actual ending. I call this a “Throw it against the wall” book.