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* Read # Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker ½ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Paradise Alley A grisly, gristly, atmospheric body blow of a novel Ga303 It's difficult to imagine a New York City where large herds of pigs roam freely through the streets and kids play with toy boats in streams of blood and offal from the butcher. Kevin Baker has a gift for thrusting the reader directly into the center of a forgotten world and a largely lesser-known chapter in Civil War history in this grisly, gristly, atmospheric body blow of a novel.I sometimes feel that the category "historical fiction" i
| Title | : | Paradise Alley |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 006087595X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 704 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-28 |
| Language | : | English |
A grisly, gristly, atmospheric body blow of a novel Ga303 It's difficult to imagine a New York City where large herds of pigs roam freely through the streets and kids play with toy boats in streams of blood and offal from the butcher. Kevin Baker has a gift for thrusting the reader directly into the center of a forgotten world and a largely lesser-known chapter in Civil War history in this grisly, gristly, atmospheric body blow of a novel.I sometimes feel that the category "historical fiction" is too broad. This is most assuredly historical fiction, but then again, many other very different types of books are also classed as "historical fiction" -- and don't get me wrong; I'm not knocking those. Solid background research; Well done story TSR A well researched novel set during the New York draft riots of 1863. There are flashbacks to the Irish famine of the 1840s which prompted a large influx of Irish into New York, including many of the novel's main characters. If you like the "historical" in historical fiction to be well done and accurate, put this book on your reading list. Its depictions of both the Irish potato famine and the 1863 riots are quite accurate. I was quite impressed by the depth of the author's research. The "fiction" part of historical fiction is likewise well done. The story drew me in quickly and kept my interest. It is a long novel, so I read it with freq. Remains in my mind! Such a book! My current reading phase is the US Civil War. (Fur trading, Hudson Bay company, new Amsterdam, sci if, all kinds of stuff). This novel touched an area with which I wasn't familiar. It just sucked me in! It was a bit of a downer, but I learned so much I didn't care. It's been two weeks and two novels later and it's still on my mind. One of those stories that stays with me. A friend suggested the film Gangs of New York.Loved this book.
Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker's follow-up to Dreamland, makes full use of his skills as a top historical researcher. More importantly, Baker has that rare gift of establishing crucial links between the past and the present, of helping a reader understand that we live with the consequences of history. Baker refers to the street violence as one of the worst instances of civic unrest in American history. --Tom Keogh. Yet one can't tell a compelling story with simple pronouncements. Paradise Alley concerns a tumultuous moment in the record of the Civil War: the 1863 New York riots that followed President Lincoln's decision to create a draft. Baker gives us a handful of characters--fictional, yet emblematic--who lead readers through the dense weave of class, race, ambition, ge
They came by boat from a starving land—and by the Underground Railroad from Southern chains—seeking refuge in a crowded, filthy corner of hell at the bottom of a great metropolis. But in the terrible July of 1863, the poor and desperate of Paradise Alley would face a new catastrophe—as flames from the war that was tearing America in two reached out to set their city on fire.
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